M 4.7 in Northern Mariana Islands on 12 Sep 2016 13:39 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 1093802
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 85.83 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.8477 , 146.2478
Event Date: 12 Sep 2016 13:39 UTC
12 Sep 2016 23:39 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Sep 2016 16:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10006p22 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),