M 4.8 in United States on 12 May 2021 09:32 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 1268452
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.2403 , 176.6465
Event Date: 12 May 2021 09:32 UTC
12 May 2021 21:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2021 09:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e2cg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),