M 5.1 in Northern Mariana Islands on 19 Feb 2017 10:42 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 1105931
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.769 , 147.5243
Event Date: 19 Feb 2017 10:42 UTC
19 Feb 2017 20:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2017 11:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008ksf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),