M 5 in United States on 28 Jul 2020 12:42 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 1227942
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 40.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.9841 , -160.3834
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 12:42 UTC
28 Jul 2020 04:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 12:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b5ad Scaled population (vector) 3.21  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 199 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Providing assistance to school meal programmes Japan donates 388 tonne ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:23:00 +0200.

Courtesy The Daily News Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary
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Japan donates 388 tonnes of canned fish to Sri Lanka, WFPFri, 31 Jul 2020 23:45:00 +0200.

Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary of the Ministry of Educ
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Japan provides Rs. 520 million food assistance to Sri Lanka through WF ... Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:54:00 +0200.

Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 08:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 31, Colombo: The Government of Japan has provided a total sum of JPY 300 million worth of (approx. Rs. 520 million) food assistance to the Government of Sri Lanka t
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Japan provides Rs. 520 million food assistance to Sri Lanka through WF ... Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:39:00 +0200.

Japan provides Rs. 520 million food assistance to Sri Lanka through WFP Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 08:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 31, Colombo: The Government of Japan has provided a total sum of JPY 300 million worth of (a
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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),