M 5.6 in Northern Mariana Islands on 19 Dec 2019 11:55 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 1198833
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 186.76 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.5517 , 145.6138
Event Date: 19 Dec 2019 11:55 UTC
19 Dec 2019 21:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2019 12:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006nf0 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: 169 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Hà Nội assesses earthquake risksMon, 23 Dec 2019 09:20:00 +0100.

HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội’s Department of Construction (DoC) has asked localities to check buildings, particularly high-rise apartment blocks and reservoirs, to prepare for earthquakes. The department requested the People’s Committees of districts ar
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The 2010 – 2020 UN News Decade in Review, part oneMon, 23 Dec 2019 07:56:00 +0100.

The decade began with an immense disaster in Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. A devastating, 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the island on January 12, killing hundreds and thousands of people (220,000 according to
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The 2010 – 2020 UN News Decade in Review, part oneMon, 23 Dec 2019 07:40:00 +0100.

The decade began with an immense disaster in Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. A devastating, 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the island on January 12, killing hundreds and thousands of people (220,000 according to
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Fukushima water could be released to sea or air after Tokyo OlympicsMon, 23 Dec 2019 07:19:00 +0100.

Tokyo: Massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could soon start to flow gradually to sea or be allowed to evaporate. The proposal made by Japan's Economy and Industry Mi
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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),