M 6.6 in E. Caroline Islands, Micronesia on 15 May 2014 08:16 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 1031746
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.5092 , 144.8994
Event Date: 15 May 2014 08:16 UTC
15 May 2014 18:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 323 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2014 08:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (82), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),