M 4.9 in Chagos Archipelago Region on 25 Feb 2016 10:53 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 1081312
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 13.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.4126 , 68.4313
Event Date: 25 Feb 2016 10:53 UTC
25 Feb 2016 15:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2016 11:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 410 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Aanklacht tegen managers Fukushima De TelegraafMon, 29 Feb 2016 10:36:00 +0100.

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Tepco: Drei Ex-Manager wegen Fukushima-Katastrophe angeklagtMon, 29 Feb 2016 10:32:00 +0100.

Tokio Fünf Jahre nach der Atomkatastrophe von Fukushima sind drei frühere Spitzenmanager der Betreiberfirma Tepco am Montag wegen Fahrlässigkeit angeklagt worden. Darunter ist der damalige Tepco-Chef Tsunehisa Katsumata. Sie sind die ersten
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Tres exdirectivos de Tepco serán juzgados por la catástrofe de Fukushi ... Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:31:00 +0100.

Tres exdirectivos de la compañía Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) serán juzgados en Japón por su responsabilidad en la catástrofe nuclear de Fukushima, en marzo de 2011, en lo que será el primer proceso por esa tragedia. El expresidente del con
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Manažeři z Fukušimy jdou před soud. Cunami se nedala předpokládat, brá ... Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:31:00 +0100.

. Tři bývalí vysocí představitelé japonské elektrárenské firmy TEPCO byli dnes oficiálně obviněni z nedbalosti v souvislosti s neštěstím v jaderné elektrárně Fukušima, kterou společnost provozovala. Zemětřesení a přívalová vlna cunami v bře
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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 (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),