M 4.79 in Canada on 30 Dec 2015 07:39 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 1077423
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 52.521 Km
Lat/Lon: 48.5865 , -123.3003333
Event Date: 30 Dec 2015 07:39 UTC
29 Dec 2015 23:39 Local
Exposed Population:
3510575 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2015 17:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
U WASH 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),