M 5.1 Off-shore on 05 Mar 2021 04:01 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 1258801
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.3493 , -176.9284
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 04:01 UTC
04 Mar 2021 16:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 04:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfun Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1085 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Explorers Walk to Islet After Extreme Low Tide Phenomenon in GreeceTue, 09 Mar 2021 03:50:00 +0100.

Greeks explored the islet off the coast of Kavouri after the extraordinarily low tide made it accessible by foot. Credit: Twitter/geogeorgios2o19. After an extreme low tide phenomenon was recorded across Greece, pedestrians in Kavouri, sout
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Phivolcs raises alert status of Taal VolcanoTue, 09 Mar 2021 03:48:00 +0100.

THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, elevated the alert status of Taal Volcano to Level 2 because of increasing unrest. “This means that there is probable magmatic activity that may or
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After the wave: a decade of grieving for a daughter lost to the Japane ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 03:48:00 +0100.

Ten years after a tsunami killed more than 18,000 people on the north-east coast of Japan, Noriyuki Suzuki returned to the spot where his daughter was swept to her death. Mai was 12 when she died in one of the most harrowing stories to emer
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Japan seeks ‘recovery of people’s hearts’ decade after quakeTue, 09 Mar 2021 03:47:00 +0100.

TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) — Ten years after Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the lives of many who survived are still on hold. One man learned to dive in order to look for his wife’s remains. A soy sauce maker rebuilt his family
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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.

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),