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 3.

• Earthquake magnitude 6.4M and depth 5.9km
• on 04/06/2012 03:15 UTC
• No people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usb000a66u (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 620 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Volunteers scrape creatures from tsunami dock
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:18:00 +0200   news-yahoo (en)

The boxcar-sized dock that was torn loose by the tsunami in Japan and washed up on an Oregon beach has been scraped clean of seaweed, shellfish and other organisms and sterilized with torches to prevent the spread of invasive species.

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Barnacle-encrusted reminder of Japans tsunami docks in Oregon
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:14:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

For years, the fishermen of Misawa, a small town on the north-eastern corner of Japan's main island, Honshu, set sail from one of four outwardly unremarkable floating docks, built using concrete ...

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Dock from Japans tsunami washes up on US beach
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:14:00 +0200   irishsun (en)

Odds of UK vote on EU membership shorten A huge dock unmoored during last year’s Japanese tsunami washed up on an Oregon beach this week and authorities are debating how to remove ...

People and organisations: European Union 

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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