M 4.9 Off-shore on 01 Mar 2021 22:19 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 1258078
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.7248 , -32.0895
Event Date: 01 Mar 2021 22:19 UTC
01 Mar 2021 20:19 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2021 22:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000deq7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 2693 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Tsunami siren failures due to power outage to be investigated, Far Nor ... Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:18:00 +0100.

The former Minister of Civil Defence said investigation into the issues with these sirens would be part of a post-event debrief. Te Kao, Te Paki, Te Hapua and Ngataki sirens on the Aupouri Peninsula not far south of Cape Reinga were affecte
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Sin daños y amenaza a la población se canceló alerta roja de tsunami p ... Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:07:00 +0100.

Durante toda la madrugada de este viernes y debido al terremoto y tsunami ocurrido en Nueva Zelanda y la declaración de alerta roja por parte de Omeni, la Prefectura de Colchagua dispuso la activación de servicios preventivos en Pichilemu,
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Tsunami siren power issues to be investigated, Far North mayor saysFri, 05 Mar 2021 21:48:00 +0100.

Four Far North tsunami sirens that experienced problems during Friday’s tsunami evacuation alerting will be investigated, Far North Mayor John Carter says. The former Minister of Civil Defence said investigation into the issues with these s
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Hallan restos de mujer muerta en tsunami de Japón en el 2011Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:35:00 +0100.

A unos días de que se cumplan 10 años de que un tsunami azotó en Japón, sorprendentemente fue identificado el cuerpo de una mujer reportada como desaparecida por el desastre natural. Foto: AP. Japón .- El 11 de marzo del 2011 un tsunami az
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),