M 5.2 in United States on 02 Dec 2021 02:26 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 1299642
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 21.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 50.9687 , 179.596
Event Date: 02 Dec 2021 02:26 UTC
02 Dec 2021 14:26 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2021 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g8cc 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), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),