M 4.6 in United States on 25 Dec 2021 23:10 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 1303418
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 14.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.8854 , -158.0317
Event Date: 25 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC
25 Dec 2021 12:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2021 23:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfaz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),