M 4.8 in Northern Mariana Islands on 10 Aug 2016 14:58 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 1091604
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 205.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.7468 , 145.6134
Event Date: 10 Aug 2016 14:58 UTC
11 Aug 2016 00:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2016 15:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10006cmb 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 (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),