M 4.5 in United States from 25 Jan 2016 08:06 UTC to 08:06

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1079204
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 122 Km
Lat/Lon: 59.785 , -153.129
Event Date: 25 Jan 2016 08:06 UTC
24 Jan 2016 23:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 11329 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2016 08:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NTWC     n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Fritzlar. Japan, die Philippinen, Brasilien: Für Beate Tohmé vom Kinderhilfswerk Global-Care war 2015 ein Jahr der Reisen. Immer wieder hat sich die Geschäftsführerin vor Ort nach den Hilfsprojekten erkundigt. Eine Tour führte sie nach Japa
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Navy says aircraft testing may have caused sonic booms, ground shaking.. 1/29/2016 5:38:00 AM.

The U.S. Navy said one of its aircraft likely created sonic booms in southern New Jersey Thursday that caused people to feel ground-shaking tremors across the state and as far away as Long Island. At 2:24 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey re
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Navy says aircraft testing may have caused sonic booms, ground shaking.. 1/28/2016 11:35:00 PM.

The U.S. Geological Survey said a sonic boom in southern New Jersey is what likely caused people to feel ground-shaking tremors that were felt as far away as Long Island. The USGS said the sonic boom occurred 3 kilometers north-northeast of
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Sonic boom causes shaking in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut 1/28/2016 9:58:00 PM.

The reports began coming just after 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, with shaking felt in Atlantic City, Trenton, Forked River, Tinton Falls, Southampton, Pleasantville, Mt. Holly, and other areas. The shaking was also felt as far away as New York an
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),