M 4.7 in Canada on 24 Oct 2020 16:18 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 1240778
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 62.2476 , -124.4429
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 16:18 UTC
24 Oct 2020 10:18 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 16:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccnk Scaled population (vector) -0.7  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.68  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 20 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

National/World News 7.5 earthquake hits off Alaska coast Scripps Natio ... Tue, 20 Oct 2020 06:36:00 +0200.

A large earthquake has been reported off the southern coast of Alaska Monday afternoon. The United States Geological Survey reports the quake measured 7.5 magnitude. Originally, the organization reported it as 7.4 magnitude. It triggered ts
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20 October 2020 - Strong Earthquake in South of Alaska on 20 October 2 ... Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:54:00 +0200.

JABATAN METEOROLOGI MALAYSIA KEMENTERIAN ALAM SEKITAR DAN AIR JALAN SULTAN Telefon : 603-7967 8000 46667 PETALING JAYA Faksimili : 603-7957 8052 SELANGOR DARUL EHSAN E-mel : seismo@met.gov.my MALAYSIA Laman Web : www.met.gov.my JMM/POCGN(O)
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National News 7.5 earthquake hits off Alaska coast Scripps National 2: ... Tue, 20 Oct 2020 05:07:00 +0200.

A large earthquake has been reported off the southern coast of Alaska Monday afternoon. The United States Geological Survey reports the quake measured 7.5 magnitude. Originally, the organization reported it as 7.4 magnitude. It triggered ts
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No tsunami threat to B.C. after 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Alaska Can ... Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:30:00 +0200.

Read more: 5.9-magnitude earthquake near Taiwan sways buildings in Taipei The the United States Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred just before 5 p.m. ET on Monday, approximately 94 kilometres southeast of Sand Point. The center
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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),