M 4.9 in Northern Mariana Islands on 11 Dec 2021 00:53 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 1300958
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 126.96 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.7094 , 145.8001
Event Date: 11 Dec 2021 00:53 UTC
11 Dec 2021 10:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2021 01:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gbc3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),