M 4.8 in United States on 19 May 2026 11:41 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 1541398
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 13.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.743 , -156.039
Event Date: 19 May 2026 11:41 UTC
19 May 2026 03:41 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand in MMI>=III
Inserted at: 19 May 2026 17:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
aka2026jvukrx Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. 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

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May 22 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck near Honaunau-Napoopoo ?on the Big Island of ?Hawaii late on Friday and the state''s volcano ?observatory was assessing the Kilauea volcano, the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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May 22 (Reuters) - ?An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck ?near Honaunau-Napoopoo on the Big ?Island of Hawaii late on Friday and the state''s volcano observatory was assessing the Kilauea ?volcano, the United States ?Geological Survey (USG
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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 (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2), CALTECH (1),