M 4.9 Off-shore on 17 May 2025 15:09 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 1482154
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.1995 , -159.8746
Event Date: 17 May 2025 15:09 UTC
17 May 2025 04:09 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 17 May 2025 15:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pzuw 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 (48), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1), CALTECH (1),