M 4.5 in Mariana Islands Region on 31 Aug 2020 07:16 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 1232465
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 309.33 Km
Lat/Lon: 21.6933 , 143.0361
Event Date: 31 Aug 2020 07:16 UTC
31 Aug 2020 17:16 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2020 08:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bf6t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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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¿Qué significa soñar con agua?Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:27:00 +0200.

El mar, el río, un lago, la lluvia, una inundación, un tsunami , un charco o, simplemente una canilla. Son enormes las opciones que tenemos al pensar en el agua . Ahora bien, ¿ qué significa soñar con ella ? ¿Tiene siempre una connotación n
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6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Costa RicaTue, 25 Aug 2020 03:08:00 +0200.

SAN JOSE—A earthquake shook buildings in Costa Rica on Monday and was felt strongly in the capital of San Jose, a Reuters witness said. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the quake was of 6.0 magnitude with an epicenter of
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¿Todavía un atisbo de luz en el país de las sombras espectrales?Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:46:00 +0200.

Para Apiavirtual. Nino Gallegos. A José Vicente Anaya: Estoy aquí, dije, con los perros románticos y aquí me voy a quedar, de Roberto Bolaño, por siempre, NG. A los antiguos como a los modernos mexicanos, lo luminoso, nos ha atraído por enc
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),