M 4.7 in United States on 16 Aug 2018 07:22 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 1153875
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 69.6421 , -144.2178
Event Date: 16 Aug 2018 07:22 UTC
15 Aug 2018 23:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 200 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2018 07:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak20106116 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),