M 4.7 in Northern Mariana Islands on 09 Dec 2016 13:07 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 1100458
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 99.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.3577 , 145.4035
Event Date: 09 Dec 2016 13:07 UTC
09 Dec 2016 23:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 39178 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2016 13:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20007zhq Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),