M 4.5 in United States on 18 Dec 2021 22:04 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 1302367
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 165.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 59.8655 , -153.8121
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 22:04 UTC
18 Dec 2021 13:04 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 22:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak021g6iansc Scaled population (vector) 2.98  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),