M 4.6 in Northern Mariana Islands on 14 Oct 2016 22:02 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 1095754
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.5537 , 148.1639
Event Date: 14 Oct 2016 22:02 UTC
15 Oct 2016 08:02 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2016 23:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007e8q 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

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Super Typhoon Haima is a beast, and it's on a collision course with th ... Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:48:00 +0200.

A dangerous typhoon is spinning like a table saw toward the Philippines just days after a major storm made landfall in Luzon. Local emergency managers are warning storm surge could exceed 15 feet in the northernmost region of Luzon when the
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Hurricane center: New storm may form soon near BahamasTue, 18 Oct 2016 20:47:00 +0200.

The National Hurricane Center said a new tropical -- or subtropical -- storm could form this week off the U.S. East Coast. The hurricane center's forecast outlook suggests the storm -- called Invest 99L for now -- could eventually turn to t
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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),