M 4.7 in Northern Mariana Islands on 26 Oct 2020 07:24 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 1240930
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 208.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.5256 , 145.8026
Event Date: 26 Oct 2020 07:24 UTC
26 Oct 2020 17:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Oct 2020 08:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Northern Mariana Is.)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cd7v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Un léger tremblement de terre ressenti au nord de Strasbourg ce mercre ... Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:44:00 +0100.

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India much safer against tsunami threat: INCOIS directorMon, 26 Oct 2020 20:53:00 +0100.

India is much safer against tsunami threat than it was in 2004, thanks to the state-of-the-art tsunami early warning system established at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information System (INCOIS) here. However, the best of warning syste
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UAE takes part in major tsunami drill in Indian OceanSun, 25 Oct 2020 04:56:00 +0100.

The UAE has taken part in a major international exercise to test how well prepared it would be if there was a tsunami. The drill involving countries across the Indian Ocean was focused on a possible event in the Makran trench, a fault line
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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),