M 5.6 in United States on 22 Dec 2024 03:56 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 1458838
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 9.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 55.9825 , -153.9973
Event Date: 22 Dec 2024 03:56 UTC
21 Dec 2024 17:56 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2024 04:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (United States)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
ALASKA EC 0 0
ak024gegz77l Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),