M 4.9 in E. Caroline Islands, Micronesia on 19 Aug 2017 06:30 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 1119597
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 23.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.1617 , 146.6115
Event Date: 19 Aug 2017 06:30 UTC
19 Aug 2017 16:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2017 06:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9pw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 273 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

En Portoviejo se hará simulacro de terremoto y tsunami este miércolesWed, 23 Aug 2017 06:19:00 +0200.

Bajo la coordinación del municipio de Portoviejo este miércoles 23 de agosto se desarrollarán simulacros en algunos lugares de confluencia de público de instituciones principalmente públicas, aunque también privadas. Las actividades, de acu
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23rd August 2017 - Harvest of sorrowWed, 23 Aug 2017 05:59:00 +0200.

Seven die in flash floods, many others displaced. From FRED ITUA. Last Thursday, another tragedy hit Abuja, the nation’s capital, following an early-morning downpour. In one of the elite estates located at Lokogoma District, a few metres fr
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Joint Typhoon Warning Center Improves Tsunami ReadinessWed, 23 Aug 2017 03:37:00 +0200.

Navy News Service. Story Number: NNS170822-04 Release Date: 8/22/2017 7:08:00 AM. From Joint Typhoon Warning Center Public Affairs. PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) released a new, publicly available tsunami dec
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PML-N amending Constitution to legitimise Sharifsâ corruption: ImranWed, 23 Aug 2017 02:53:00 +0200.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has alleged that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) wanted to amend the Constitution to legitimise the Sharif family’s corruption. Speaking on the proposed constitutional amend
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),