M 5.3 in Japan on 19 Aug 2016 12:07 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 1092154
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 36.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.6597 , 141.1909
Event Date: 19 Aug 2016 12:07 UTC
19 Aug 2016 21:07 Local
Exposed Population:
1513398 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2016 12:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006f0e 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: 974 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

Japan Donates $5 Million For Drought ReliefTue, 23 Aug 2016 11:45:00 +0200.

The Japanese government has donated five million US dollars to help the World Food Programme (WFP) provide food assistance between September and November 2016 to over 300,000 drought-affected people in the four worst affected countries in s
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Catorce detenidos en China por vender marisco con radiación de Fukushi ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:41:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao ha detenido a 14 personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en el país marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushima, la prefectura nipona afectada por un acciden
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Catorce detenidos por vender marisco con radiación procedente de aguas ... Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:39:00 +0200.

La policía del puerto chino de Qingdao (este) detuvo a 14 personas sospechosas de introducir ilegalmente en Chin a marisco con altos niveles de radiación procedentes de aguas próximas a Fukushim a, la prefectura nipona afectada por un accid
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New technique uses cotton swabs to identify distant relativesTue, 23 Aug 2016 11:30:00 +0200.

"Up till now, the accuracy of verifying pairwise blood relations between parents and children were 95 per cent and siblings around 72 per cent. With slightly more distant relatives like aunts and uncles it goes down to five percent. As for
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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),