M 6.2 in Japan on 14 Apr 2016 12:26 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1084342
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.8494 , 130.6345
Event Date: 14 Apr 2016 12:26 UTC
14 Apr 2016 21:26 Local
Exposed Population: 690000 people in MMI
8290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2016 13:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1 1
us20005hzn 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),