M 4.6 in United States on 27 Dec 2025 22:08 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 1517014
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 18.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.589 , -175.228
Event Date: 27 Dec 2025 22:08 UTC
27 Dec 2025 10:08 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI&>=II
Inserted at: 28 Dec 2025 00:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak2025zmnlpv Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),