M 5.1 Off-shore on 22 Feb 2021 23:49 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 1257063
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 51.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.3867 , -178.4518
Event Date: 22 Feb 2021 23:49 UTC
22 Feb 2021 11:49 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2021 14:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dkac Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 495 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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Magnitude 3.2 earthquake strikes near Simi Valley, Ventura County, Cal ... Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:22:00 +0100.

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake near Simi Valley, Ventura County, California, USA, was reported only 8 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered the key international and national agency that monitors seismic activity in the
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Fragments: First-hand accounts of the February 2011 Earthquake Episode ... Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:53:00 +0100.

As a 6.3 aftershock surges out from near Lyttelton, across the Port Hills and into the surrounding suburbs, a jogger tries to outrun boulders falling all around her on a hillside track; a team races to protect people on the Port Hills gondo
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Small tremor of magnitude 3.6 just reported 18 miles southeast of Mina ... Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:51:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 occurred in the morning on Friday 26 February 2021 at 11:27 am local time near Mina, Mineral County, Nevada, USA, as reported by the United States Geological Survey. According to preliminary data, the quake wa
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),