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

Updated: this report is based on update number 2.

• Earthquake magnitude 6M and depth 9.1km
• on 02/04/2012 17:36 UTC
• 790000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usc0008ui2 (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 662 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Dallas Tornado 2012: Flight Cancellations Continue at DFW Airport
Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:18:00 +0200   ibtimes-cn (en)

Hundreds more American Airlines flights were canceled on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the wake of Tuesday's powerful tornado-riddled storm.

People and organisations: National Weather Service  Red Cross 

Tsunami 'ghost ship' sunk by US coastguard
Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:00:00 +0200   guardian (en)

Ryou-Un Maru's voyage across the Pacific Ocean ends after a year floating in busy shipping lanes The Ryou-Un-Maru's year-long voyage across the Pacific Ocean ended in a blaze of gunfire and plumes of smoke on Friday after the Japanese fishing vessel, which had been swept out to sea by last March's tsunami, was sunk by the US coastguard.

People and organisations: Environmental Protection Agency  Fukushima Daiichi  NASA 

US Coast Guard sinks tsunami 'ghost ship'
Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:00:00 +0200   guardian (en)

Machine guns trained on Ryou-Un Maru, laden with diesel and drifting into shipping lanes off the coast of Alaska The US coastguard has machine-gunned and sunk a derelict and fuel-laden Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by the 2011 Japan tsunami.

People and organisations:

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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