M 5.1 in United States on 16 Dec 2020 19:13 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 1247821
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 46.39 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.2894 , -178.1891
Event Date: 16 Dec 2020 19:13 UTC
16 Dec 2020 09:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2020 19:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000crnh 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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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), USGS (2),