M 5.2 in United States on 18 Nov 2021 09:50 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 1297447
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 53.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.3993 , -178.338
Event Date: 18 Nov 2021 09:50 UTC
17 Nov 2021 23:50 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Nov 2021 10:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fv2c Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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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),