M 4.8 in United States on 05 Apr 2024 14:23 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 1422783
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 4.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.683 , -74.7532
Event Date: 05 Apr 2024 14:23 UTC
05 Apr 2024 10:23 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2024 14:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ma74 Scaled population (raster) 0.7  
  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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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 (5), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),