M 4.6 in United States on 08 Dec 2016 10:18 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 1100293
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 24.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.2054 , -150.0491
Event Date: 08 Dec 2016 10:18 UTC
08 Dec 2016 01:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 369 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2016 10:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak14685748 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.
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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),