M 5.5 in Guam on 17 May 2018 18:47 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 1143413
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 45.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.0097 , 145.3498
Event Date: 17 May 2018 18:47 UTC
18 May 2018 04:47 Local
Exposed Population: 160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 May 2018 20:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000e7fv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),