M 5.3 Off-shore on 05 Mar 2021 02:43 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 1258785
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.3314 , -176.5986
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 02:43 UTC
04 Mar 2021 14:43 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 03:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dftb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1221 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

REUTERS - Ten years after Fukushima, Japan remembers 'man-made' nuclea ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:33:00 +0100.

Ten years after Fukushima, Japan remembers 'man-made' nuclear disaster. By Linda Sieg TOKYO, March 9 (Reuters) - When a huge earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, devastating towns and triggering nuclear meltdowns in Fukus
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Biden administration extends Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:18:00 +0100.

The Biden administration said Monday that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who have fled the economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland can stay in the U.S. for now, moving to cement a policy President Trump had put in p
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After the wave: a decade of grieving for a daughter lost to the Japane ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:14:00 +0100.

Ten years after a tsunami killed more than 18,000 people on the north-east coast of Japan , Noriyuki Suzuki returned to the spot where his daughter was swept to her death. Mai was 12 when she died in one of the most harrowing stories to eme
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Phivolcs raises Taal Volcano’s alert status to Level 2 amid ‘increasin ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:11:00 +0100.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Tuesday, March 9 raised the alert status of Taal Volcano from Level 1 to 2 as the active volcano has been exhibiting increased unrest since Feb. 13, 2021. (Ali Vicoy / MAN
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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),