M 5.6 in United States on 17 Jul 2025 04:30 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 1490483
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.523 , -160.1301
Event Date: 17 Jul 2025 04:30 UTC
16 Jul 2025 17:30 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2025 21:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qd4n 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.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Alaska Earthquake: 6.2 magnitude tremor strikes days after major quake.. 7/21/2025 1:40:00 AM.

Earlier earthquake of 7.3 magnitude triggers tsunami warning Just four days earlier, on 17 July, a stronger quake of magnitude 7.3 had hit the same region. The NCS recorded that earthquake at a depth of 36 kilometres, again shallow enough t
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hit Alaska, second in a week 7/21/2025 1:22:00 AM.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck Alaska on Monday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. As per the statement, the earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 48km, making it susceptible to aftershocks.In a post on
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Magnitude 6.2 aftershock strikes Alaska’s Aleutian Islands 7/21/2025 12:51:00 AM.

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake was recorded in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Sunday, marking one of the strongest aftershocks following the magnitude 7.3 quake that struck the region on Wednesday, according to seismologists. The United States Ge
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Earthquake Today: Tremors of magnitude 6.2 strikes Alaska 7/21/2025 12:34:00 AM.

Shallow earthquakes are generally more dangerous than deep earthquakes. This is because the seismic waves from shallow earthquakes have a shorter distance to travel to the surface, resulting in stronger ground shaking and potentially more d
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),