M 5.3 in United States on 29 Jun 2016 08:37 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 1089032
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 210.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 56.2831 , -161.8045
Event Date: 29 Jun 2016 08:37 UTC
28 Jun 2016 21:37 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jun 2016 08:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC n.a 0
ak13732173 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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Acnur considera prioritario legalizar hogares de desplazados en Colomb.. 7/3/2016 2:56:00 AM.

El Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados ( ACNUR ), Filippo Grandi, consideró este sábado que la legalización de la estancia de los desplazados en Colombia es la prioridad más urgente para terminar con el drama del desarra
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),