M 4.6 in Northern Mariana Islands on 02 Feb 2014 17:59 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 1025263
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 221.44 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.7288 , 145.5014
Event Date: 02 Feb 2014 17:59 UTC
03 Feb 2014 03:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2014 18:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),