M 5 in United States from 20 Feb 2021 21:15 UTC to 21:15

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1256792
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.834 , -128.417
Event Date: 20 Feb 2021 21:15 UTC
20 Feb 2021 12:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2021 21:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NTWC 0 0
at00qouj2b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (5), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),