M 4.6 in United States on 15 Jan 2022 00:22 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 1305992
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 15.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 52.4725 , -168.0466
Event Date: 15 Jan 2022 00:22 UTC
14 Jan 2022 13:22 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2022 00:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2.2 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gc5b Scaled population (vector) 0.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.65  
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: 274 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

UN conducts post-quake assessment in Afghanistan2022-01-18T23:04+0100.

Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2022 shows damaged mud houses after an earthquake in Qadis district of Afghanistan's western province of Badghis. (Photo by Mashal/Xinhua) Initial reports indicate that 26 people have been killed and four others inju
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MIL-OSI Translation: Afghanistan: 5.3 magnitude earthquake kills at le ... 2022-01-18T21:23+0100.

MIL OSI Translation. Region: France and French Territories – Source: United Nations – in English. Headline: Afghanistan: 5.3 magnitude earthquake kills at least 26 in Badgis province. At least 26 people died, most from collapsing roofs of t
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Is the tide level change “unprecedented” true? Delays in tsunami warni ... 2022-01-18T20:46+0100.

The eruption occurred in Tonga after 13:00 JST on Saturday, 15th. Since a huge umbrella-shaped eruption could be immediately confirmed on the meteorological satellite image, it was judged that the eruption was a very large scale, so informa
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Les sauveteurs recherchent des survivants après les séismes meurtriers ... 2022-01-18T18:50+0100.

Abdul Jabar, un autre survivant de Qadis, a déclaré que de nombreux habitants préféraient rester à l’air libre, craignant d’autres tremblements. « Nous avions peur et ne voulions pas rester chez nous », a-t-il dit, ajoutant que des équipes
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),