M 4.6 in Guam on 20 Jan 2019 09:30 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 1168497
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 110.93 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.117 , 145.364
Event Date: 20 Jan 2019 09:30 UTC
20 Jan 2019 19:30 Local
Exposed Population:
130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2019 10:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j6lc Scaled population (vector) 4.44  
  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: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Conoce los desastres naturales más mortales de este 2018Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:47:00 +0100.

Cuando hablamos de desastres naturales , nos referimos a la cantidad de pérdidas materiales y humanas que se dan en un determinado lugar. Los fenómenos que entran en esta categoría son: terremotos inundaciones tsunamis deslizamientos de tie
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Special Mass held for cancer patientsThu, 10 Jan 2019 06:50:00 +0100.

The crowds packed the pews at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basillica for the inauguration Mass dedicated to St. Peregrine , the patron saint of cancer patients. Remembering the lives lost to cancer and those currently suffering from
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GVB elects 4 board membersThu, 10 Jan 2019 02:30:00 +0100.

The Guam Visitors Bureau has elected four members to serve in its Board of Directors. The board members were elected during a meeting on Wednesday. Members include Joann Camacho, former GVB general manager, former First Lady of Guam and cur
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San Agustin introduces bill to expand Castle DoctrineWed, 09 Jan 2019 09:42:00 +0100.

Senator Joe San Agustin again introducing a bill that would expand the Castle Doctrine law. Bill 14 states that a person should not be required to retreat in order to protect themselves against death or being a victim of another crime. The
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),