M 4.9 in Canada on 31 Mar 2024 15:04 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 1421991
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 78.8165 , -94.6514
Event Date: 31 Mar 2024 15:04 UTC
31 Mar 2024 10:04 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2024 15:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.4 (Canada)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m92v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),