M 4.6 in Northern Mariana Islands on 07 Mar 2016 17:11 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 1082038
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.2011 , 146.975
Event Date: 07 Mar 2016 17:11 UTC
08 Mar 2016 03:11 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Mar 2016 18:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),