M 5.6 in Guam on 16 Jul 2019 22:03 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 1183604
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 7.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 12.3388 , 144.5255
Event Date: 16 Jul 2019 22:03 UTC
17 Jul 2019 08:03 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jul 2019 22:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Guam)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70004lw5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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QUAKE WARNING Where did the Japan earthquake strike and what is the la ... Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:22:00 +0200.

However, Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a warning for a tsunami along the north west coast of the main island. All seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata are now "off line" and no abnormalities were repo
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Japan earthquake sparks tsunami warning: Evacuations after 6.8 magnitu ... Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:37:00 +0200.

Niigata and Yamagata regions are on alert after the 6.8 magnitude quake struck this afternoon. The quake struck at around 22:41 JST and hit 53 miles northeast of the island of Honshu. The epicentre of the quake struck at a depth of about se
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Japan tsunami warning issued after 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes A ... Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:05:00 +0200.

Niigata and Yamagata regions are on alert after the 6.8 magnitude quake struck this afternoon. The quake struck at around 22:41 JST and hit 53 miles northeast of the island of Honshu. The epicentre of the quake struck at a depth of about se
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),