M 4.6 in Philippines on 06 Mar 2016 12:01 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 1081961
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 16.9401 , 122.8581
Event Date: 06 Mar 2016 12:01 UTC
06 Mar 2016 20:01 Local
Exposed Population:
104404 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2016 12:51 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: 726 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Japan Still Searching for the Missing, 5 Years After TsunamiThu, 10 Mar 2016 11:46:00 +0100.

The Japanese coast guard resumed underwater searches this week for some of the more than 2,500 people still missing from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast coast. Six divers entered Hirota Bay in near-fr
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Luis Toledo dejará el caso Caval para integrarse a la Fiscalía Naciona ... Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:42:00 +0100.

Luis Toledo dejará el caso Caval para integrarse a la fiscalía nacional El persecutor jefe de O'Higgins será el nuevo líder de la Unidad contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancia Peligrosas. Jorge Abbott también llamó a la ex
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AP PHOTOS: Legacies of a disaster dot Japan's tsunami coastThu, 10 Mar 2016 11:39:00 +0100.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan (AP) — A lone tree. An elementary school where more than 70 students and teachers perished. A small hill that punctuates the otherwise flat landscape. They are legacies that still stand in northern Japan's coastal town
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Japan still searching for the missing, 5 years after tsunamiThu, 10 Mar 2016 11:39:00 +0100.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese coast guard has resumed underwater searches for some of the more than 2,500 people still missing from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast coast. Six divers entered
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),