M 5.9 in United States on 28 Aug 2025 11:07 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 1497866
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 133.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.0002 , 179.8605
Event Date: 28 Aug 2025 11:07 UTC
28 Aug 2025 02:07 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2025 11:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qrj0 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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 (48), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),