M 4.5 in Northern Mariana Islands on 30 Aug 2020 01:42 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 1232302
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 63.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.0759 , 145.9496
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 01:42 UTC
30 Aug 2020 11:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 02:01 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bewd Scaled population (vector) 2.42  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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: 211 | About casualties: 38 | Last hour: 0

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Japan on alert as 2 powerful typhoons approachWed, 02 Sep 2020 14:09:00 +0200.

Japan's weather agency warned Wednesday of two powerful typhoons approaching, as one of them began to affect islands off Kyushu, while the other is expected to make landfall in a few days. A freighter with 43 foreign crew aboard sent a dist
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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),