M 4.5 in Northern Mariana Islands on 29 Jul 2016 22:27 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 1090908
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 192.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.4621 , 145.5749
Event Date: 29 Jul 2016 22:27 UTC
30 Jul 2016 08:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2016 22:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us100068m5 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: 1015 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

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Washington: Tropical Storm Earl formed Tuesday in the Caribbean, prompting at least three countries to issue warnings over potentially heavy rains and a big storm surge, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was about 350km southeas
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Tropical Storm Earl strengthensTue, 02 Aug 2016 21:31:00 +0200.

Tropical Storm Earl strengthened Tuesday afternoon and maintained a course toward a stretch of coast from Guatemala to Mexico's Yucatán peninsula. The storm, which is not a threat to Florida, has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and is exp
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India, alluvioni da nord a sud: 150 morti e strage di rinocerontiTue, 02 Aug 2016 21:08:00 +0200.

(ap) Il monsone di quest'anno è stato più violento di quanto ci si aspettasse. Si è abbattuto sull'India da nord a sud con violentissime piogge che in tre settimane hanno causato straripamenti di fiumi e inondazioni, provocando almeno 150 m
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),