M 5.9 in West Of Macquarie Island on 09 Mar 2017 11:14 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 1107372
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -60.1464 , 150.2962
Event Date: 09 Mar 2017 11:14 UTC
09 Mar 2017 21:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Mar 2017 11:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100087wv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 910 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Vigilance fortes pluies dans l'Ouest et le Sud-Ouest (actualisé) [VIDÉ ... Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:57:00 +0100.

Les grosses pluies qui s'abattent sur l'ouest et une partie du sud depuis la nuit du dimanche au 12 mars au lundi 13 mars 2017 génèrent des cascades sur la falaise de la route du littoral. Cet axe routier devrait d'ailleurs être basculé sur
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TCO Les fortes pluies dans l'Ouest risquent de perturber les collectes ... Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:57:00 +0100.

"Suite aux fortes pluies, les collectes des déchets prévues aujourd'hui, lundi 13 mars, risquent d'être perturbées, certaines voies étant en effet devenues impraticables pour les camions" informe le TCO ce lundi 13 mars 2017. "Suite aux fo
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West Auckland flood victims count costMon, 13 Mar 2017 10:52:00 +0100.

The building manager alone lost four cars while one tenant had bought his first car a day before the flood, only to have it swamped. Young ground floor tenants Dhruv and Sabharwal Roochika said they were thankful they had insurance, but rem
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In saffron tsunami, UP ministers fall like ninepinsMon, 13 Mar 2017 09:43:00 +0100.

LUCKNOW: The saffron tsunami which swept Uttar Pradesh also blew away almost three-fourths of ministers in the who had entered electoral fray. Veteran Samajwadi Party leader and Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey also failed to hold groun
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),