M 5.5 in United States on 08 Apr 2021 17:10 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 1263987
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 77.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 63.2075 , -148.5817
Event Date: 08 Apr 2021 17:10 UTC
08 Apr 2021 09:10 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2021 17:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak0214icukav Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 178 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Sanctioning India Would Spoil the QuadMon, 12 Apr 2021 16:44:00 +0200.

On June 8, 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a joint session of Congress. I was in the room as Modi, reflecting on the U.S.-India relationship, said “the constraints of the past are behind us and foundations of the future
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This Aircraft Carrier Could Start (Or Finish) A War with ChinaMon, 12 Apr 2021 15:11:00 +0200.

(CVN-76) has been the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Five (CSG-5), the only forward-based and carrier strike group home-ported at Yokosuka, Japan. This would be the tip of the U.S. military's spear in any Permanently forward-deployed to
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USS George Washington Is One Bad Ass Aircraft Carrier. Here's Why.Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:39:00 +0200.

President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton led an entourage of the nation's leaders on board the carrier on June 5, 1994, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. Later that warship was d
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Deja sismo ocho decesos y dañosMon, 12 Apr 2021 00:35:00 +0200.

Un fuerte terremoto mató al menos a ocho personas, hirió a otras 23 y causó daños en más de 300 edificios en Java, la principal isla de Indonesia, y se sintió además en Bali, informaron las autoridades el sábado. No se emitieron alertas de
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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),