M 4.7 in United States on 17 Feb 2020 03:33 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 1206833
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.2379 , -178.1517
Event Date: 17 Feb 2020 03:33 UTC
16 Feb 2020 15:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2020 05:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007rm3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 231 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia on Friday morning (local time), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at around 3:24 am, was located at a depth of 157 k
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Aid group helps Pendleton residents recover from floodThu, 20 Feb 2020 21:16:00 +0100.

“We spent days and days mopping up the mud,” Creger said. This week, a semitruck and trailer bearing the name Samaritan’s Purse pulled into town with a cadre of volunteers. They parked and prepared to help flood victims muck out and gut the
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Puerto Rico (The United States of America): Rattled but not Broken: Wo ... Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:43:00 +0100.

Release date: February 18, 2020. Release Number: DR-4473-PR NR 19. CAGUAS, Puerto Rico – On Dec. 28, an earthquake rattled Puerto Rico’s southwest coast, destroying homes and cultural treasures. Unfortunately, it was just a precursor to a m
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Yellowstone volcano: Supervolcano hit by almost earthquake SWARM – wil ... Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:21:00 +0100.

Could Yellowstone volcano erupt? However, experts warn it is not necessarily the size of an earthquake which is an indicator a volcano might erupt, but the quantity of them. Portland State University Geology Professor Emeritus Scott Burns s
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),