M 4.7 in United States on 27 Dec 2021 06:54 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 1303611
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.1836 , -128.9824
Event Date: 27 Dec 2021 06:54 UTC
26 Dec 2021 21:54 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2021 07:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfke Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), CALTECH (1), USGS (2),