M 5.1 Off-shore on 16 Jan 2021 09:42 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 1251812
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.5313 , -177.027
Event Date: 16 Jan 2021 09:42 UTC
15 Jan 2021 21:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2021 10:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d0mh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 572 | About casualties: 83 | Last hour: 0

Eastern Samar jolted by magnitude 4.2 quakeWed, 20 Jan 2021 09:27:00 +0100.

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit the waters off Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar on Wednesday afternoon which was felt in nearby areas, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Based on Phivolcs’ earthqu
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Light 4.2 quake hits near Loreto, Baja California Sur, MexicoWed, 20 Jan 2021 09:22:00 +0100.

4.2 quake 20 Jan 12:48 am (GMT -7) A magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, was reported only 24 minutes ago by Mexico's National Seismological Service (SSN), considered the main national agency that monitors sei
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Les entreprises rouvrent alors que les demandeurs creusent les débris ... Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:12:00 +0100.

in News Des supermarchés, des stations-service et d’autres magasins rouvrent dans une ville indonésienne frappée par le tremblement de terre où les débris couvrent toujours les rues et les demandeurs continuent de creuser dans les décombres
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Strong earthquake surprised conductors of an Argentine newscastWed, 20 Jan 2021 08:54:00 +0100.

A newscast was on the air when the strong 6.4 magnitude quake struck; the hosts’ reaction went viral. | 01/20/2021 | ionicons-v5-c01: 18 | E. Salazar | Buenos Aires.- Last Monday night, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shook the provinc
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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),