M 4.9 Off-shore on 05 Mar 2021 06:46 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 1258821
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.1644 , -176.5383
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 06:46 UTC
04 Mar 2021 18:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 07:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfvw 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: 993 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima reverend prays for revival of radiation-hit churchTue, 09 Mar 2021 06:34:00 +0100.

A notice for a Sunday mass that was never held is still posted on a billboard at the steel entry gate. Above sit a damaged cross and a rusty bell. Inside, a ray of sunshine illuminates empty pews. The silence is shattered only by the alarm
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Japan seeks 'recovery of people's hearts' decade after quakeTue, 09 Mar 2021 06:24:00 +0100.

Ten years after Japan's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the lives of many who survived are still on hold. On March 11, 2011, one of the biggest temblors on record touched off a massive tsunami, killing more than 18,000 people and
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Le 11 mars 2011, un tremblement de terre et un tsunami engendraient la ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:09:00 +0100.

Le 11 mars 2011, un tremblement de terre et un tsunami engendraient la plus grande catastrophe nucléaire du 21ème siècle à la centrale de Fukushima, au Japon. Comment cet évènement a-t-il influencé ou marqué les artistes japonais ? Tewfik
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Earthquake information: strong mag. 5.8 earthquake – North Pacific on ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:07:00 +0100.

Information: The more agencies report the same earthquake and publish similar data, the more confident you will be in the data. It usually takes up to a few hours for earthquake parameters to be calculated with near-perfect accuracy. Magnit
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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),