M 5.6 in United States on 16 Sep 2021 17:51 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 1285924
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.2424 , -156.6512
Event Date: 16 Sep 2021 17:51 UTC
16 Sep 2021 07:51 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2021 18:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak021bwmmasc Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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

Articles: 296 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Volcano Destroys 100 Homes In Spain2021-09-20T17:43+0200.

Mount Cumbre Vieja erupts spewing a column of smoke and ash as seen from Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary island of La Palma on September 20, 2021. DESIREE MARTIN / AFP. A surge of lava destroyed around 100 homes on Spain’s Canary Island
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Les États-Unis lancent l’expulsion massive de migrants haïtiens du Tex ... 2021-09-20T17:19+0200.

Au moins 100 Haïtiens, y compris des familles avec de jeunes enfants, sont rentrés au Mexique depuis le camp dimanche soir. Le Mexique a déclaré qu’il commencerait également à expulser des Haïtiens vers Haïti, un responsable du gouvernement
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Lava destroys dozens of Canary Island homes as volcano erupts2021-09-20T16:27+0200.

A house burns due to lava from the eruption of a volcano in the Cumbre Vieja national park on the Canary Island of La Palma, September 20, 2021. (Reuters) A surge of lava destroyed around 100 homes on Spain's Canary Islands a day after a vo
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Mary Comerio2021-09-20T16:23+0200.

, an emeritus professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, is an internationally recognized authority on post-disaster reconstruction issues. She has spent much of the past 20 years on reconnaissance missions to the scenes of such tragedies as
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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),