M 4.9 in W. Caroline Islands, Micronesia on 16 Aug 2017 07:23 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 1119404
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 45.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.4112 , 138.8576
Event Date: 16 Aug 2017 07:23 UTC
16 Aug 2017 16:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2017 07:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a8pe Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 324 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Hawaiian island shaken by quakeSun, 20 Aug 2017 06:59:00 +0200.

HONOLULU A magnitude 4.1 earthquake hit off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory said the earthquake struck at 8:35 p.m. Friday about 66 miles northeast of the town of Hawaiian Beach
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Magnitude-6.4 Earthquake Strikes Waters in Eastern FijiSun, 20 Aug 2017 06:40:00 +0200.

BANGKOK – A magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck on Saturday the waters in eastern Fiji, in the South Pacific, but authorities did not issue any tsunami alert or report any victims. The hypocenter of the earthquake was situated at a depth of 538
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Gempa 'Unik' Mengguncang Muara Enim SumselSun, 20 Aug 2017 05:42:00 +0200.

Jakarta - Pada Minggu pagi tadi terjadi gempa yang mengguncang Muara Enim, Sumatera Selatan. BMKG menyatakan gempa ini tergolong unik dan sangat jarang. Berdasarkan informasi dari BMKG, gempa itu terjadi pada Minggu, 20 Agustus 2017 pukul 0
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Co jest motorem polskiego wzrostu? "Tsunami pieniądza poszło do k ... Sun, 20 Aug 2017 05:26:00 +0200.

Zdecydowanie przyczyną wzrostu była konsumpcja prywatna, czyli to co my wydajemy - uważa analityk finansowy Piotr Kuczyński. "Taka fala, ja tu mówię wręcz o tsunami pieniądza, poszła do kieszeni konsumenta i spowodowała wzrost gospodarczy"
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),