M 4.5 in Northern Mariana Islands on 21 May 2016 08:17 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 1086674
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 31.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 19.5252 , 146.3087
Event Date: 21 May 2016 08:17 UTC
21 May 2016 18:17 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2016 09:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),