M 4.7 in Guam on 18 Mar 2022 06:31 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 1314309
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 66.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.1602 , 144.5752
Event Date: 18 Mar 2022 06:31 UTC
18 Mar 2022 16:31 Local
Exposed Population:
170 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2022 07:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000h5mp Scaled population (vector) 5.46  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),