M 4.8 in Northern Mariana Islands on 07 Sep 2020 07:32 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 1233402
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.1412 , 146.6328
Event Date: 07 Sep 2020 07:32 UTC
07 Sep 2020 17:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Sep 2020 08:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bj7d 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 144 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

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Stalled by pandemic, migrants press in quest for better lifeThu, 10 Sep 2020 08:21:00 +0200.

LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama (AP) — Duperat Laurette fled Haiti after her country's massive 2010 earthquake, making her way first to the Dominican Republic, then Chile, and five years later to Panama — all with the dream of reaching the US and fin
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Massive California wildfire triggered by explosives used at gender rev ... Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:36:00 +0200.

A pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party on Saturday caused a massive wildfire in California which razed more than 10,000 acres of land in California, officials said. According to surveillance footage, a group of people gather
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Volcanism Under the Heart of Northern Europe: New Evidence From Thousa ... Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:28:00 +0200.

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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),