M 5.5 in Guam on 14 Sep 2024 11:41 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 1445780
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.0321 , 144.1907
Event Date: 14 Sep 2024 11:41 UTC
14 Sep 2024 21:41 Local
Exposed Population: 160 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2024 16:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Guam)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ndsf Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),