M 4.9 in Northern Mariana Islands on 03 Aug 2020 12:45 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 1228706
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.0183 , 147.4263
Event Date: 03 Aug 2020 12:45 UTC
03 Aug 2020 22:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2020 13:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b8pv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),