Overall Green Earthquake alert in United States from 11 Jan 2022 11:35 UTC to 11:35

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M 6.7 in United States from 11 Jan 2022 11:35 UTC to 11:35

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1305471
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.7M
Depth:	33 Km
Lat/Lon:	52.48 , -167.736
Event Date:	11 Jan 2022 11:35 UTC 11 Jan 2022 00:35 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	11 Jan 2022 11:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
NTWC	0		0		0
at00r5jmvn	Scaled population (raster)	0.18	Max wave alert	0.08m
	C1 earthquake	1	Max wave realtime	0.08m
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.65

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Articles: 571 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Volcano erupts near Tonga, islanders rush to escape waves 0 1/15/2022 ... 2022-01-15T11:39+0100.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. There were no immediate repor

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Tsunami observed in American Samoa after Tonga volcano erupts2022-01-15T11:36+0100.

The agency said it continued to monitor the situation but no tsunami threat had been issued to the Australian mainland, islands or territories. Tsunami waves of 2.7 feet (83 cm) were observed by gauges at the Tongan capital of Nuku’alofa an

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Tonga issues tsunami warning after undersea volcano erupts2022-01-15T11:36+0100.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand >> An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. There were no immediate reports o

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Frightened Tongans flee tsunami2022-01-15T11:34+0100.

Frightened Tongans fled to higher ground on Saturday after a massive volcanic eruption — heard in neighbouring countries — triggered the area’s second tsunami in as many days. “A 1.2-metre tsunami wave has been observed at Nukualofa,” Austr

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), CALTECH (1), NOAA (1),

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