M 7.5 in United States on 05 Jan 2013 08:58 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 121780
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.5M
Depth: 9.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.368 , -134.621
Event Date: 05 Jan 2013 08:58 UTC
04 Jan 2013 23:58 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2013 13:56 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.5 0.5
usc000ejqv Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.45m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (81), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),