M 5 in Palau on 11 Apr 2016 02:07 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 1084103
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10.93 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.2937 , 132.9599
Event Date: 11 Apr 2016 02:07 UTC
11 Apr 2016 11:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 105 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2016 02:24 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: 1008 | About casualties: 62 | Last hour: 0

Suman nueve muertos tras sismos en JapónFri, 15 Apr 2016 01:51:00 +0200.

Por lo menos nueve personas murieron tras una serie de fuertes temblores en el suroeste de Japón ocurridos durante la noche, indicó el viernes por la mañana un funcionario de la región. "El balance es por el momento de nueve muertos", decla
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Registrado un terremoto de magnitud 6,5 al noroeste del archipiélago d ... Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:51:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,5 en la escala de Richter ha sacudido este jueves Vanuatu, según ha informado el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS), sin que por el momento haya informaciones sobre víctimas o daños. Según estas informac
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Strong quake kills 9, injures more than 760 in JapanFri, 15 Apr 2016 01:50:00 +0200.

TOKYO (AP) — At least nine people were killed and 761 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake Thursday night that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan, the government's chief spokesman said. Yoshihide Suga said he would v
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01:19 Tote bei Erdbeben in JapanFri, 15 Apr 2016 01:49:00 +0200.

ERDBEBEN ⋅ Bei einem Erdbeben in Japan sind mindestens neun Menschen get�tet worden. Dies teilte der Katastrophenschutz der am st�rksten betroffenen Pr�fektur Kumamoto am Donnerstag mit. Das Beben der St�rke 6,5 ersch�tterte am sp�ten Aben
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),