M 5.6 in United States on 29 Jul 2020 09:12 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 1228070
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 40.32 Km
Lat/Lon: 54.9728 , -160.3332
Event Date: 29 Jul 2020 09:12 UTC
29 Jul 2020 01:12 Local
Exposed Population: About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2020 19:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b5zl Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 210 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

URGENT Les Philippines frappées par un séisme de magnitude 6,4 à 10 km ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 20:59:00 +0200.

Selon l'Institut d'études géologiques des Etats-Unis,un tremblement de terre d'une magnitude de 6,4 a secoué samedi les Philippines à 10 km au sud-ouest de Polloc à 17H09min 01s GMT. L'épicentre, situé à une profondeur de 479,56 km, a été i
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Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 5,5 frappe le sud de la dorsale m ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 13:24:00 +0200.

Un tremblement de terre d'une magnitude de 5,5 est survenu dans la partie sud de la dorsale médio-atlantique à 09H17 GMT samedi, selon l'Institut d'études géologiques des Etats-Unis. L'épicentre, qui correspond à un hypocentre d'une profond
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Providing assistance to school meal programmes Japan donates 388 tonne ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:23:00 +0200.

Courtesy The Daily News Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary
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Japan donates 388 tonnes of canned fish to Sri Lanka, WFPFri, 31 Jul 2020 23:45:00 +0200.

Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary of the Ministry of Educ
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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),