M 5.6 in Mariana Islands Region on 08 Oct 2016 18:10 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 1095446
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 20.0232 , 146.7683
Event Date: 08 Oct 2016 18:10 UTC
09 Oct 2016 04:10 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Oct 2016 18:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007cti 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1043 | About casualties: 46 | Last hour: 0

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