M 5.1 Off-shore on 09 Jul 2013 18:22 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 1000431
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 39.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -31.8729 , -178.6125
Event Date: 09 Jul 2013 18:22 UTC
09 Jul 2013 06:22 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jul 2013 20:53 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 948 | About casualties: 47 | Last hour: 0

Two dead, 100 injured as Typhoon Soulik hits TaiwanSat, 13 Jul 2013 17:56:00 +0200.

Around 8,000 people were evacuated from their homes before the typhoon struck, with hundreds of soldiers deployed to high-risk areas and the whole island declared an "alert zone" by the authorities. Strong winds battered the island for muc
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Reactor restarts haunt Fukushima raceSat, 13 Jul 2013 17:52:00 +0200.

Masako Mori is concerned about her party's pledge to restart nuclear reactors in Japan. Mori is facing a bruising battle as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's ...
In China, Landslide Traps Dozens Of TouristsSat, 13 Jul 2013 17:51:00 +0200.

BEIJING -- At least 100 tourists, including 38 Vietnamese nationals, were trapped in northwest China after a landslide cut off a road amid weeklong storms that have flooded rivers and triggered mudslides, killing at least 69 people, state m
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Inside Japan's nuclear exclusion zoneSat, 13 Jul 2013 17:38:00 +0200.

A notice at the train station ticket office reads: "Apologies - we will be back soon." But in the deserted radiation hotspot of Futaba, in post-Fukushima Japan, nobody will be back soon.

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),