M 6.4 in Northern Mariana Islands on 28 Aug 2018 22:35 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 1155188
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 59.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.7605 , 146.8723
Event Date: 28 Aug 2018 22:35 UTC
29 Aug 2018 08:35 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2018 22:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000gj78 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 282 | About casualties: 39 | Last hour: 0

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Wayne HaySat, 01 Sep 2018 12:06:00 +0200.

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Earthquake causes minor damage to a number of buildings in KhanaqinSat, 01 Sep 2018 11:16:00 +0200.

. SULAIMANI Minor damage occurred to a number of buildings in Khanaqin early on Saturday (September 1) after a quake hit the city, about 200 kilometers southeast of Sulaimani. The center of the quake was near the western Iranian city of Ke
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Tsunami mock exercise on September 4 to check Gujarat’s preparednessSat, 01 Sep 2018 11:04:00 +0200.

The exercise is aimed at identifying gaps with the help of pre-exercise and post-exercise evaluation process. (Photo: IANS) To check Gujarat’s preparedness in dealing with a tsunami that had once hit the state in 1945, a huge mock drill is
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),