M 4.9 Off-shore on 19 Aug 2016 12:08 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 1092156
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.1059 , -177.6628
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 12:08 UTC
19 Aug 2016 00:08 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2016 12:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006f0j 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 865 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Catorce detenidos en China por vender marisco con radiación de Fukushi ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:41:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao ha detenido a 14 personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en el país marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushima, la prefectura nipona afectada por un acciden
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Catorce detenidos por vender marisco con radiación procedente de aguas ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:39:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao (este) detuvo a 14 personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en Chin a marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushim a, la prefectura nipona afectada por un accid
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New technique uses cotton swabs to identify distant relativesTue, 23 Aug 2016 11:30:00 +0200.

"Up till now, the accuracy of verifying pairwise blood relations between parents and children were 95 per cent and siblings around 72 per cent. With slightly more distant relatives like aunts and uncles it goes down to five percent. As for
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Catorce detenidos en China por vender marisco con radiación de Fukushi ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:28:00 +0200.

CONTRABANDO DAÑINO Catorce detenidos en China por vender marisco con radiación de Fukushima La banda introdujo 5.000 toneladas de alimentos contaminados durante los últimos dos años. Monjes budistas y familiares de las víctimas de Fukushim
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),