M 4.6 in Northern Mariana Islands on 13 Feb 2022 00:00 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 1309849
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 116.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.9529 , 145.8011
Event Date: 13 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
13 Feb 2022 10:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2022 00:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gkdv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),