M 5.1 Off-shore on 18 Mar 2016 14:12 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 1082744
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 34.72 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.9015 , 143.0875
Event Date: 18 Mar 2016 14:12 UTC
19 Mar 2016 00:12 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2016 14:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),