M 5.5 in Canada from 07 Jan 2017 03:13 UTC to 03:13

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1102699
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 11 Km
Lat/Lon: 50.25 , -129.79
Event Date: 07 Jan 2017 03:13 UTC
06 Jan 2017 18:13 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2017 03:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Canada)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NTWC     0 0
at00oje3n9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),