M 6.7 in Japan on 13 Nov 2015 20:51 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 1072182
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.9977 , 128.8362
Event Date: 13 Nov 2015 20:51 UTC
14 Nov 2015 05:51 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Nov 2015 22:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.18m  
  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)

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