M 5.6 Off-shore on 05 Mar 2020 13:11 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 1209014
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.7716 , -176.2651
Event Date: 05 Mar 2020 13:11 UTC
05 Mar 2020 01:11 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2020 15:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008a7b Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 482 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

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Japan's pro baseball league delays season start over coronavirusMon, 09 Mar 2020 11:36:00 +0100.

Japan's professional baseball league said Monday it will delay the start of the season for both the Central and Pacific leagues, originally scheduled for March 20, due to the coronavirus outbreak. "We are aiming to open the season in April,
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Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes off Northern CaliforniaMon, 09 Mar 2020 11:25:00 +0100.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled Northern California last night, hours before a 4.9-magnitude aftershock struck the coastline. The quake, which hit at around 8pm, had an epicenter more than a mile beneath the Pacific Ocean and 70 miles so
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MLB Virus postpones opening of Japanese pro baseball seasonMon, 09 Mar 2020 11:24:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials postponed the start of the 12-team professional baseball league season on Monday because of the spread of the coronavirus. The season was to open on March 20. Japan's professional league had been playing its
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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),