M 8.2 Earthquake and Tsunami (2.6 m) in United States on 29 Jul 2021 06:15 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1279046
Earthquake Magnitude: 8.2M
Glide number: EQ-2021-000099-USA
Depth: 32.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.3248 , -157.8414
Event Date: 29 Jul 2021 06:15 UTC
28 Jul 2021 19:15 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2021 07:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)
Maximum Wave Height observed: 0.21336 m

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0.2 1.8 1.8
ak0219neiszm Scaled population (raster) 1.91 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 2.63m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.65      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4), CALTECH (1),