M 5.6 in United States from 03 Aug 2023 19:33 UTC to 19:33

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1385483
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 12.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.6215 , -161.0547
Event Date: 03 Aug 2023 19:33 UTC
03 Aug 2023 08:33 Local
Exposed Population: 3 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2023 19:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak0239vw210t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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