M 5.5 in Southwest Of Sumatera, Indonesia on 03 Mar 2016 00:10 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 1081753
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.829 , 94.4102
Event Date: 03 Mar 2016 00:10 UTC
03 Mar 2016 06:10 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Mar 2016 01:03 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  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 885 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima: tristes touristes dans une zone de non-droitSun, 06 Mar 2016 23:38:00 +0100.

Alors que les Japonais s'apprêtent à commémorer le drame survenu il y a 5 ans sur la côte Pacifique de l'archipel, nombreux sont ceux qui désirent observer de leurs yeux ces lieux de mémoire que sont devenus le littoral ravagé par le tsunam
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إسلاميون وحزب الله الإرهابي.. يرون القذى ويُغمضون عن الجذعSun, 06 Mar 2016 23:36:00 +0100.

(إنما أهلك من كان قبلكم كان إذا سرق فيهم الشريف تركوه وإذا سرق فيهم الضعيف أقاموا عليه الحدّ، والله لو أن فاطمة بنت محمد سرقت لقطعت يدها) هذا الخطاب المحمدي لم يكن خطاباً شرعياً فحسب بل كان خطاباً يرسم الدورة الحضارية السننية في التعامل مع
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National › Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parentsSun, 06 Mar 2016 23:27:00 +0100.

OKUMA. Takayuki Ueno did not hesitate one moment to expose himself to high radiation five years ago while searching for family members swept away by the tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The bodies of his moth
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National › 'High-tech' dogs eyed for quake rescue missionsSun, 06 Mar 2016 23:27:00 +0100.

Fujimi (Japan) (AFP) Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity of the Brittany spa
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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 (48), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),