Overall Green Earthquake in Northern Mariana Islands on 16 Jan 2021 12:25 UTC

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M 4.6 in Northern Mariana Islands on 16 Jan 2021 12:25 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 1251828
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	345.41 Km
Lat/Lon:	18.7013 , 145.2484
Event Date:	16 Jan 2021 12:25 UTC 16 Jan 2021 22:25 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Jan 2021 12:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000d0n8	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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