M 4.7 in United States on 17 Oct 2021 19:27 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 1290749
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 25.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.0535 , -157.5968
Event Date: 17 Oct 2021 19:27 UTC
17 Oct 2021 08:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 14:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000fvha Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 186 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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The United States Geological Survey reported a magnitude 3.3 quake in the United States near Malaga, Eddy County, New Mexico, only 24 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the morning on Thursday, October 21st, 2021, at 10:33 am local time at
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Small magnitude 3.2 earthquake 40 miles southwest of Eureka, Californi ... 2021-10-21T15:38+0200.

A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported early morning near Eureka, Humboldt County, California, USA. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Thursday, October 21st, 2021, at 6:10 am local time at a shallow
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Small magnitude 3.1 earthquake 42 miles southwest of Malaga, Texas, Un ... 2021-10-21T14:07+0200.

A very shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported early morning near Malaga, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA. According to the United States Geological Survey, the quake hit on Thursday, October 21st, 2021, at 6:31 am local time at a very s
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),