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 3.

• Earthquake magnitude 7.1M and depth 34.8km
• on 25/03/2012 22:37 UTC
• 1140000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usc0008pwq (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1094 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

What's changed a year on?
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:20:00 +0200   cnn (en)

Photographs from Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan before and after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami are the most telling. A year later, there's not one power pole, wall-mounted gas meter or roadside curb that hasn't been meticulously attended to.

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi  Yuhei Sato  Fukushima Prefecture  Yomiuri Shimbun  Miyagi Prefecture 

Fisherman reviving industry
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:13:00 +0200   cnn (en)

The dock on Katsurashima Island off the coast of Japan's Miyagi prefecture has sunk by half a meter because of last year's Great East Japan earthquake.

People and organisations: Miyagi Prefecture 

Elderly, vulnerable but not defeated
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:13:00 +0200   cnn (en)

Editor's note: Francis Markus, who works in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' East Asia Regional Office in Beijing, was deployed to Japan immediately after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to give communications support to the Japanese Red Cross Society, and....

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi  Francis Markus  Regional Office  Red Crescent  World War  Red Cross  International Federation 

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.

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