Overall Green Earthquake in United States on 30 Dec 2021 13:24 UTC

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M 4.9 in United States on 30 Dec 2021 13:24 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 1304008
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	57.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	57.2462 , -154.9548
Event Date:	30 Dec 2021 13:24 UTC 30 Dec 2021 04:24 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	30 Dec 2021 13:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	2.2 (United States)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
ALASKA EC	0		0
ak021gq7i6k6	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.65

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Latest44 mins ago Strong quake hits off Taiwan’s eastern coast 1/3/2022 1:20:00 PM.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Taiwan on Monday evening, the Central Weather Bureau said, with shaking felt in the capital Taipei but no immediate reports of damage. The weather bureau said the quake measured 6.0 in mag

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Strong quake hits off Taiwan's eastern coast 1/3/2022 1:11:00 PM.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Taiwan on Monday evening, the Central Weather Bureau said, with shaking felt in the capital Taipei but no immediate reports of damage. A strong earthquake struck off the coast of easter

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Strong quake hits off Taiwan's eastern coast 1/3/2022 1:05:00 PM.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Taiwan on Monday evening, the Central Weather Bureau said, with shaking felt in the capital Taipei but no immediate reports of damage. A strong earthquake struck off the coast of easter

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),

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