M 4.7 in Northern Mariana Islands on 25 May 2017 15:39 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 1113801
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 82.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.4315 , 146.5809
Event Date: 25 May 2017 15:39 UTC
26 May 2017 01:39 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 May 2017 20:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008vcg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 382 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Bangladesh ports warned over cycloneMon, 29 May 2017 15:07:00 +0200.

Impoverished Bangladesh, hit by cyclones every year, warned on Monday some low- lying coastal areas were likely to be inundated by a storm surge of 1.2 to 1.5 metres above normal and raised the storm danger signal, on a scale of one to 10,
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Cyclone churns towards Bangladesh as storm toll reaches at least 201 i ... Mon, 29 May 2017 15:01:00 +0200.

DHAKA/AGALAWATTE, Sri Lanka/ A severe and intensifying cyclone churned north toward Bangladesh on Monday after heavy rain in Sri Lanka and thunderstorms in eastern India killed at least 201 people, with more torrential downpours forecast. I
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Cyclone churns towards Bangladesh as storm toll reaches at least ...Mon, 29 May 2017 14:57:00 +0200.

Floods reached roof level and cut off access to many rural Sri Lankan villages, disrupting life for half a million people. (Raises death toll, paragraphs 1 and 4; adds Bangladesh comment, paragraphs 14-15) * Sri Lanka sees worst disaster fr
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Full Article: Cyclone churns toward Bangladesh as storm toll reaches a ... Mon, 29 May 2017 14:45:00 +0200.

By Ruma Paul and Dinuka Liyanawatte. DHAKA/AGALAWATTE, Sri Lanka/ (Reuters) - A severe and intensifying cyclone churned north toward Bangladesh on Monday after heavy rain in Sri Lanka and thunderstorms in eastern India killed at least 201 p
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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),