M 4.5 in United States on 16 Jan 2017 21:40 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 1103383
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 57.9302 , -136.7869
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 21:40 UTC
16 Jan 2017 12:40 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 21:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak15081582 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)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),