M 4.8 Off-shore on 27 Aug 2016 08:59 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 1092737
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.0991 , 60.9897
Event Date: 27 Aug 2016 08:59 UTC
27 Aug 2016 12:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2016 09:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006ui0 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2173 | About casualties: 263 | Last hour: 0

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Taifun fegt über Japan: Neun Menschen sterben in AltersheimWed, 31 Aug 2016 08:47:00 +0200.

In der Stadt Kuji kam demnach zudem eine weitere alte Frau ums Leben. Der inzwischen abgezogene Taifun "Lionrock" war am Vorabend in der Region Tohoku im Nordosten auf Land getroffen. Die Region war vor fünf Jahren von einem Erdbeben und Ts
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Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people's homeWed, 31 Aug 2016 08:45:00 +0200.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Floods have inundated an old people's home in Japan killing nine people, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11. Police found the nine bodies i
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Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people's homeWed, 31 Aug 2016 08:45:00 +0200.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Floods have inundated an old people's home in Japan killing nine people, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11. Police found the nine bodies i
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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),