This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Updated: this report is based on update number 4.

• Earthquake magnitude 7.4M and depth 20km
• on 20/03/2012 18:02 UTC
• 970000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usc0008m6h (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 769 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Travolta un anno fa dallo tsunami in Giappone, nave riemerge in Canada
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:53:00 +0100   gazzettadiparma (it)

Inghiottito dal mare più di un anno fa, è ricomparso al largo delle coste canadesi: Si tratta di un peschereccio giapponese che ...

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Fukushima: travolta da tsunami, nave riemerge in Canada
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:53:00 +0100   gazzettadiparma (it)

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 24 MAR - Inghiottito dal mare piu’ di un anno fa, e’ ricomparso al largo delle coste canadesi: Si tratta di un ...

People and organisations: ANSA 

Rok po cunami japonská loď dobloudila do Kanady
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:48:00 +0100   e15 (cs)

Rok po ničivém zemětřesení a následné vlně cunami, které postihly severovýchod Japonska, se na moři udržela rybářská loď. Pracovníci záchranného koordinačního střediska ze západokanadské Britské Kolumbie ji spatřili v oceánu a podle nich loď vypadá stabilně, i když je značně zrezivělá.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product. The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: NEIC (4), EMM (2), JRC (35), (2), WMO (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), NOAA (1),

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