M 4.7 Off-shore on 05 Mar 2021 05:09 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 1258814
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.768 , -176.7075
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 05:09 UTC
04 Mar 2021 17:09 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 06:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfvg 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: 1022 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

newsinfo Phivolcs raises Alert Level 2 over Taal VolcanoTue, 09 Mar 2021 05:05:00 +0100.

Of the recorded earthquakes, four were low-frequency volcanic earthquakes, and one hybrid earthquake at shallow depths of less than one and a half kilometers beneath Taal Volcano Island or TVI in the past 24 hours, Phivolcs said. “Volcanic
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Fukushima Reverend Prays For Revival Of Radiation-hit ChurchTue, 09 Mar 2021 04:57:00 +0100.

Reverend Akira Sato dreams of hearing hymns echo once again through the church he was forced to leave behind after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster a decade ago. Ten years after a tsunami overwhelmed the cooling systems at the nearby
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Earthquake leaves homes in rubbleTue, 09 Mar 2021 04:55:00 +0100.

A magnitude 6 earthquake struck Italy and destroyed homes across various towns. In Amatrice, Italy, residents assess the damage to their homes. Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.
Aftermath of earthquake that hit ItalyTue, 09 Mar 2021 04:55:00 +0100.

Buildings lay in rubble in Amatrice, Italy, after an earthquake struck the town. Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),