M 4.9 in United States on 29 Nov 2020 15:57 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 1245607
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 51.1477 , -178.936
Event Date: 29 Nov 2020 15:57 UTC
29 Nov 2020 05:57 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Nov 2020 16:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ckx0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),