M 4.8 in Japan on 16 Aug 2016 19:22 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 1091980
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 27.74 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.6717 , 125.6687
Event Date: 16 Aug 2016 19:22 UTC
17 Aug 2016 03:22 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1668 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2016 20:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006e88 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 698 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude 6 quake strikes off Japanese coastSat, 20 Aug 2016 19:13:00 +0200.

LONDON An earthquake measuring 6.0 struck off the east coast of Japan in the early hours of Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake's epicentre was offshore, 192 km (120 miles) east of Hachinohe, Honshu island at a depth of 1
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Strong 6.0 quake hits northern Japan: USGSSat, 20 Aug 2016 19:11:00 +0200.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan for a third consecutive day early Sunday though there were no immediate reports of people injured or damage. The shallow 6.0 magnitude quake hit at 00:58 am (1558 GMT Saturday) 170
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Strong 6.0 quake hits northern Japan: USGSSat, 20 Aug 2016 19:11:00 +0200.

Tokyo (AFP) - A strong earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan for a third consecutive day early Sunday though there were no immediate reports of people injured or damage. The shallow 6.0 magnitude quake hit at 00:58 am (1558 GMT
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Magnitude 6 quake strikes off Japanese coastSat, 20 Aug 2016 19:06:00 +0200.

LONDON (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 6.0 struck off the east coast of Japan in the early hours of Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake's epicenter was offshore, 192 km (120 miles) east of Hachinohe, Honshu island at
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),