M 5.1 in Japan on 16 Oct 2016 07:37 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 1095821
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 14.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.3018 , 141.5331
Event Date: 16 Oct 2016 07:37 UTC
16 Oct 2016 16:37 Local
Exposed Population:
2442983 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2016 08:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007ei7 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

Articles: 702 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

El tifón 'Lawin' deja cuatro muertos y miles de desplazados a su paso ... Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:08:00 +0200.

Además, miles de personas han tenido que abandonar sus viviendas y han sido trasladados a refugios de emergencia antes de llegar el tifón, que el día anterior había sido clasificado como tifón violento, la clasificación de mayor intensidad
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Santa Barbara Welcomes Toba, Japan Delegation on 50th Sister City Anni ... Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:07:00 +0200.

They were also hosted by Santa Barbara families at their homes, took a visit to a sea urchin factory, saw the Santa Barbara Zoo and had dinner at the University Club. The group leaves for Los Angeles on Friday. The Santa Barbara-Toba Sister
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Magnitude 5.3 quake shakes eastern Japan, no tsunami warningThu, 20 Oct 2016 07:00:00 +0200.

TOKYO: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 shook eastern Japan on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami warning was not issued. The epicentre of the earthquake, which occurred at 11:50 a.m. (0250
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El tifón 'Lawin' deja cuatro muertos y miles de desplazados a su paso ... Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:59:00 +0200.

Además, miles de personas han tenido que abandonar sus viviendas y han sido trasladados a refugios de emergencia antes de llegar el tifón, que el día anterior había sido clasificado como tifón violento, la clasificación de mayor intensidad
...(more)

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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),