M 4.5 in Northern Mariana Islands on 21 May 2016 08:17 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 1086674
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 31.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.5252 , 146.3087
Event Date: 21 May 2016 08:17 UTC
21 May 2016 18:17 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2016 09:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 715 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Ecuador: Ecuador earthquake, one month later: your support in actionWed, 25 May 2016 07:21:00 +0200.

On April 18, 2016 a major earthquake struck Ecuador. The Ecuadorian government reported that at least 660 people were killed and more than 4,605 were injured in the quake. At least 22,500 people have left homeless. One month later, another
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زعامة الحريري تطغى على كل الزعامات وجمهوره ينتظر منه الكثير..Wed, 25 May 2016 05:10:00 +0200.

قبل الانتخابات البلدية والاختيارية، اتهم كثيرون الرئيس سعد الحريري بأنه لا يريد اجراء الانتخابات خوفا على زعامته على اعتبار أن حجم التأييد له سوف يصغر لأسباب موضوعية تكمن أولا بوجوده (سابقا) لفترة طويلة خارج البلاد وتتمثل بالأزمة المالية ال
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Alaska crew to help Canada fight flames in Fort McMurray oilsandsWed, 25 May 2016 04:26:00 +0200.

And with no significant rain in two to three months — combined with warm forecast this week — it's going to stay tough. "There always is that potential," that flames could cross the firebreaks around the Suncor and Syncrude facilities, that
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U.S., South African firefighters arrive to help combat Alberta inferno ... Wed, 25 May 2016 02:51:00 +0200.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA/QUEBEC – Evacuated workers began returning Tuesday to Canadian oil sands camps with orders to restart production, three weeks after encroaching wildfires forced a partial shutdown. A “phased re-entry” at 10 camps near Fort
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),