M 5.3 Off-shore on 05 Mar 2021 04:16 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 1258799
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.6458 , -176.4513
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 04:16 UTC
04 Mar 2021 16:16 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 04:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfuh 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1098 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Philippines raises alert level for volcano over "increasi...Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:11:00 +0100.

MANILA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Philippine volcanologists on Tuesday raised the alert level for Taal volcano to 2, saying the island volcano, 66 km south of Manila, is showing "increasing unrest." "This means that there is (a) probable magmatic
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Philippines raises alert level for volcano over "increasing unrest"Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:03:00 +0100.

MANILA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Philippine volcanologists on Tuesday raised the alert level for Taal volcano to 2, saying the island volcano, 66 km south of Manila, is showing "increasing unrest." "This means that there is (a) probable magmatic
...(more)
Japan seeks ‘recovery of people’s hearts’ decade after quakeTue, 09 Mar 2021 04:03:00 +0100.

TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) — Ten years after Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the lives of many who survived are still on hold. One man learned to dive in order to look for his wife’s remains. A soy sauce maker rebuilt his family
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Explorers Walk to Islet After Extreme Low Tide Phenomenon in GreeceTue, 09 Mar 2021 03:50:00 +0100.

Greeks explored the islet off the coast of Kavouri after the extraordinarily low tide made it accessible by foot. Credit: Twitter/geogeorgios2o19. After an extreme low tide phenomenon was recorded across Greece, pedestrians in Kavouri, sout
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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),