M 6.1 in Northern Mariana Is. on 14 Aug 2023 13:51 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 1386993
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.3798 , 147.5429
Event Date: 14 Aug 2023 13:51 UTC
14 Aug 2023 23:51 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2023 14:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kzv3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),