M 4.9 in Palau on 26 Feb 2021 08:38 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 1257539
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.5681 , 138.0687
Event Date: 26 Feb 2021 08:38 UTC
26 Feb 2021 17:38 Local
Exposed Population:
About 700 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2021 09:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Palau)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ddup Scaled population (vector) 1.89  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Pacific Beat: ThursdayThu, 11 Feb 2021 02:01:00 +0100.

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),