M 4.9 in United States on 04 Nov 2020 03:27 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 1242449
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 12.54 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.5913 , -162.5867
Event Date: 04 Nov 2020 03:27 UTC
03 Nov 2020 16:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Nov 2020 01:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ca41 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 219 | About casualties: 47 | Last hour: 0

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 7901: Probabilistic Seismic Hazard As ... Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:24:00 +0100.

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samoa Late night 6.5 tremor shakes Samoa out of bed By Mata'afa Keni L ... Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:10:00 +0100.

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook Samoa late on Saturday evening; alarming residents and waking them back up near midnight. The quake struck at 11.27 pm Samoan time and it lasted for over 30 seconds. There was the first initial strike and th
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On ne connaît pas encore avec certitude le nom du futur président des Etats-Unis. Mais à lire les presses américaine, anglaise, ou encore française, 4 ans après 2016, cette élection de 2020 a encore causé quelques séismes. Tout d'abord, sel
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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),