M 4.8 in Japan on 04 Feb 2016 22:41 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 1079994
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 31.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.564 , 139.6355
Event Date: 04 Feb 2016 22:41 UTC
05 Feb 2016 07:41 Local
Exposed Population:
39305648 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Feb 2016 23:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Latest media headlines

An imminent threat 2/8/2016 10:02:00 PM.

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China - Taiwan Province: Japan’s Response to the Earthquake in Souther.. 2/8/2016 4:40:00 PM.

On February 6 (in the early hours of the same day, local time) an earthquake occurred in Southern Taiwan, toppling nine buildings in Tainan City, resulting in a large number of deaths and injuries to date. From the perspective of providing
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Four survivors pulled from collapsed building two days after Taiwan ea.. 2/8/2016 2:55:00 PM.

At least four people including an eight-year-old girl have been rescued from a high-rise Taiwanese apartment building toppled by a powerful earthquake two days earlier. More than 100 people are believed to still be under the debris in a dis
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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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),