M 5.1 in Bonin Islands, Japan Region on 06 Mar 2016 07:02 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 1081947
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.6123 , 142.9789
Event Date: 06 Mar 2016 07:02 UTC
06 Mar 2016 17:02 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2016 07:27 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: 544 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

5 Jahre danach: Orte um Fukushima noch zu gefährlichThu, 10 Mar 2016 06:34:00 +0100.

Fukushima. Es ist fünf Jahre her. Vergessen hat aber niemand, was damals im Land Japan passiert ist: Eine riesige Flutwelle zerstörte dort Städte und Dörfer. Zudem wurde ein Atomkraftwerk beschädigt. Viele, die in der Nähe des Atomkraftwerk
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Q&A: 5 Years Down, 40 More to GoThu, 10 Mar 2016 06:31:00 +0100.

Five years after the triple meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, decommissioning and cleanup continue. The following is a short question and answer on the situation at the site of the worst
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Fukushima exclusion worse than radiation?Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:30:00 +0100.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption While some areas of the exclusion zone have been reopened, much of it remains off-limits. The exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant has a strange beauty to it. The small town of Okuma,
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Japan in Dilemma over Tsunami-Devastated Okawa SchoolThu, 10 Mar 2016 06:25:00 +0100.

ISHINOMAKI, Japan – The remains of the Osaka elementary school, where 74 children and 10 teachers died, has become a symbol of the tragedy caused by the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. The country now faces a dilemma over whether to demo
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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 (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),