M 5.2 in Canada on 08 Jan 2022 08:16 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 1305052
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 28.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 60.4818 , -140.4103
Event Date: 08 Jan 2022 08:16 UTC
08 Jan 2022 01:16 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2022 00:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Canada= 2.4; United States= 2.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ga56 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.68  
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),