Overall Green Earthquake in United States on 06 Jan 2022 00:28 UTC

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M 4.76 in United States on 06 Jan 2022 00:28 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 1304748
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	11.41 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.3274994 , -117.9014969
Event Date:	06 Jan 2022 00:28 UTC 05 Jan 2022 16:28 Local
Exposed Population:	Less than 100 people in MMI V 20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	06 Jan 2022 00:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NCAL SS	0		0
nc73674211	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.65

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