M 5.5 in United States on 28 Oct 2020 04:13 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 1241173
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 233.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 53.2014 , -173.4182
Event Date: 28 Oct 2020 04:13 UTC
27 Oct 2020 16:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2020 04:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c6l2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 286 | About casualties: 38 | Last hour: 0

Americares Sends Emergency Medical Aid to ArmeniaSun, 01 Nov 2020 00:49:00 +0100.

Stamford, Conn. Oct. 29, 2020 Americares has nearly $1 million in critical medicine and medical supplies on the way to hospitals and health facilities in Armenia treating those caught in the midst of the escalating Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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Turkey-Greece earthquake: Rescuers have pulled more than 100 survivors ... Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:27:00 +0100.

Thirty-seven of the deaths were in Turkey, authorities there said, and two were in Greece. At least 885 people were injured in Turkey. A total of 20 buildings were seriously damaged in Izmir by the tremor Friday afternoon, according to Izmi
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Rescuers in Turkey pull more than 100 earthquake survivors from the ru ... Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:23:00 +0100.

Rescue efforts continued apace in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Saturday, a day after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea, causing buildings to come crashing down and claiming the lives of at least 39 people. Thirty-seven of the
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Rescues under the rubble and a desperate search after the earthquake i ... Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:12:00 +0100.

A hundred people were able to get out alive from among the destroyed buildings. They are still missing. The earthquake in the Aegean Sea, of 7 degrees, left at least 30 dead. Rescue teams were struggling on Saturday to find survivors in the
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),