M 6.2 in United States on 20 Jul 2025 22:28 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 1491141
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 40 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.6038 , -159.8239
Event Date: 20 Jul 2025 22:28 UTC
20 Jul 2025 14:28 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2025 21:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000qe51 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

UNICEF funds Vadamaradchy schools to build basi... 7/24/2025 10:07:00 PM.

UNICEF funds Vadamaradchy schools to build basic facilities [TamilNet, Monday, 25 July 2005, 11:08 GMT] UNICEF has allocated Rs 2.5m to build basic nine schools in Vadamaradchy, Jaffna, to build facilities to provide drinking water and to b
...(more)
JVP launches campaign against CFA in south 7/24/2025 10:07:00 PM.

[TamilNet, Monday, 25 July 2005, 15:58 GMT] More than 1500 cadres and supporters of Marxist Sinhala nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) staged a protest demonstration against the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) demanding Colombo to make
...(more)
P-TOMS Court action, a true tragedy - Prof Plate 7/24/2025 10:07:00 PM.

[TamilNet, Monday, 25 July 2005, 15:52 GMT] Expressing his view that that the stay order by Sri Lanka''s Supreme Court suspending four key provisions of the Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS) "a true tragedy," Prof Tom P
...(more)
TREMBLEMENT DE TERRE - L’épicentre d’un séisme à Analamanga 7/24/2025 10:02:00 PM.

Des secousses ont réveillé de nombreux habitants de la région d’Analamanga tôt hier matin. « Elles étaient brèves, mais intenses », témoignent des habitants d’Antananarivo. Le Laboratoire de sismologie et d’infrasons de l’Institut et Observ
...(more)

View more news

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 (92), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),