M 5.2 in United States on 04 Aug 2020 12:47 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 1228842
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 44.41 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.743899999999996 , -161.1441
Event Date: 04 Aug 2020 12:47 UTC
04 Aug 2020 01:47 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2020 13:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b95f Scaled population (vector) 2.36  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 242 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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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),