M 4.9 Off-shore on 06 Aug 2016 12:23 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 1091381
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 13.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.0831 , 61.1737
Event Date: 06 Aug 2016 12:23 UTC
06 Aug 2016 16:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2016 12:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006buj 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: 555 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

Regiones niponas afectadas por el tsunami buscan revivir con "Pokémon ... Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:08:00 +0200.

Las tres prefecturas del noroeste de Japón más afectadas por el tsunami y el terremoto de 2011 presentaron hoy un proyecto de colaboración con los desarrolladores de "Pokémon GO", destinado a atraer a turistas interesados en el popular vide
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Regiones niponas afectadas por el tsunami buscan revivir con "Pokémon ... Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:02:00 +0200.

Las tres prefecturas del noroeste de Japón más afectadas por el tsunami y el terremoto de 2011 presentaron hoy un proyecto de colaboración con los desarrolladores de "Pokémon GO", destinado a atraer a turistas interesados en el popular vide
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Samoa to benefit from New Zealand natural disaster assistanceWed, 10 Aug 2016 11:21:00 +0200.

WELLINGTON， Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government on Wednesday unveiled the latest phase of a program to help Samoa build resilience to natural disasters. The work would include improving early warning systems; additional training
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Samoa to benefit from New Zealand natural disaster assistanceWed, 10 Aug 2016 11:06:00 +0200.

WELLINGTON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government on Wednesday unveiled the latest phase of a program to help Samoa build resilience to natural disasters. The work would include improving early warning systems; additional training
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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 (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),