M 4.87 in United States on 24 Dec 2021 11:31 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 1303201
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 11.89 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.8698333333333 , -155.234
Event Date: 24 Dec 2021 11:31 UTC
24 Dec 2021 01:31 Local
Exposed Population: 90 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Dec 2021 12:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
HVO 0 0
hv72844817 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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), HVO (1),