M 6.3 in Canada on 25 Dec 2019 03:36 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1199517
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 50.5828 , -129.9987
Event Date: 25 Dec 2019 03:36 UTC
24 Dec 2019 18:36 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2019 04:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Canada)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us70006qt7 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

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9 Earthquakes Hit California In Less Than 24 hours On ChristmasThu, 26 Dec 2019 15:34:00 +0100.

A 6.3 magnitude quake struck a spot off the coast of British Columbia on Christmas eve, around 113 miles west of Port Hardy, Canada. (USGS) According to The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) , California generally gets two or th
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9th earthquake in 3 days recorded off Canada's west coastThu, 26 Dec 2019 14:23:00 +0100.

Two more earthquakes have hit in the waters off Canada’s west coast on Christmas Day. Earthquakes Canada says a magnitude 4.9 earthquake hit 198 kilometres west of Port Hardy, B.C., shortly before 1 p.m. local time. A smaller earthquake was
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),