M 4.6 in Northern East Pacfic Rise on 19 Jan 2019 02:24 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 1168460
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.3206 , -103.325
Event Date: 19 Jan 2019 02:24 UTC
18 Jan 2019 19:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2019 02:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j66t 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 239 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Still time to lodge claims for Oct 2018 earthquake event - EQCWed, 23 Jan 2019 02:26:00 +0100.

The Earthquake Commission is reminding customers whose homes and property suffered damage in the earthquake that struck the North Island near Taumarunui on 30 October last year that they still have time to lodge a claim. Head of Response an
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Minor quake felt in Chiang MaiWed, 23 Jan 2019 01:25:00 +0100.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale was recorded in San Sai district of Chiang Mai province late Tuesday. No casualties or damage were reported. The Earthquake Observation Division of the Meteorological Department rep
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'Silent Slip' Along Fault Line Serves as Prelude to Big Earthquakes, R ... Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:12:00 +0100.

Big earthquakes appear to follow a brief episode of "shallow mantle creep" and "seismic swarms," suggests new research at Oregon State University that offers an explanation for the foreshocks observed prior to large temblors. Published toda
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'Silent slip' along fault line serves as prelude to big earthquakes, r ... Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:48:00 +0100.

Credit: Oregon State University. Big earthquakes appear to follow a brief episode of "shallow mantle creep" and "seismic swarms," suggests new research at Oregon State University that offers an explanation for the foreshocks observed prior
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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),