M 5.5 in United States on 08 Aug 2020 14:42 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 1229378
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 42.11 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.8389 , -161.3373
Event Date: 08 Aug 2020 14:42 UTC
08 Aug 2020 06:42 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2020 16:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000bb4r Scaled population (raster) 0  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 268 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Google creates 'world's largest earthquake detection network ... Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:16:00 +0200.

Such a vast userbase allowed Google to negate the costly and time-consuming process of installing a ground network of seismometers. Google’s home state of California, which is prone to severe earthquakes, already has more than 700 seismomet
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Earthquake detection: Google hopes to turn Android smartphones into mi ... Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:46:00 +0200.

Months after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a pandemic, governments stepped up their contact tracing efforts. It did not take long for major tech companies such as Apple and Google to integrate new software into their respect
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Google turns Android phones into earthquake sensorsWed, 12 Aug 2020 13:36:00 +0200.

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: Alphabet’s Google’s Android phones on Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting
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Google lance 'ShakeAlert', un système d'alerte sur smartphone en cas d ... Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:01:00 +0200.

C'est une fonctionnalité qui peut paraître dérisoire en France, mais qui pourrait bien sauver des vies à l'Ouest des États-Unis. Google a annoncé, mardi 11 août, le lancement d'un dispositif d'alerte aux tremblements de terre pour téléphone
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),