M 4.5 Off-shore on 04 Jan 2015 03:18 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 1046183
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 6 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.565 , -118.636
Event Date: 04 Jan 2015 03:18 UTC
03 Jan 2015 19:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jan 2015 03:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
USGS 0 0
at00nhmui8 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),