M 4.6 in Japan on 07 Feb 2016 10:26 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 1080166
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 49.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0021 , 139.9827
Event Date: 07 Feb 2016 10:26 UTC
07 Feb 2016 19:26 Local
Exposed Population:
40045744 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Feb 2016 10:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 594 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

Japan: Fukushima clean-up 'may take 40 years'Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:18:00 +0100.

The crippled nuclear reactor is now stable but the decommissioning process is making slow progress, says the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, better known as TEPCO. "If I may put this in terms of mountain climbing, we've just passe
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الصليب الاحمر الياباني: دعم الكويت ساهم كثيرا في التعافي من كارثة زلزا ... Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:10:00 +0100.

من ميوكو ايشيغامي. سينداي (يابان) - 11 - 2 (كونا) -- قالت جمعية الصليب الاحمر اليابانية اليوم الخميس ان المنحة الكويتية كانت اكبر اسهام من اي بلد اخر منذ كارثة الزلزال وأمواج المد العاتية (تسونامي) التي ضربت البلاد في مارس 2011 وخلفت نحو 18
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الصليب الاحمر الياباني: دعم الكويت ساهم كثيرا في التعافي من كارثة زلزا ... Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:01:00 +0100.

من ميوكو ايشيغامي. سينداي (يابان) - 11 - 2 (كونا) -- قالت جمعية الصليب الاحمر اليابانية اليوم الخميس ان المنحة الكويتية كانت اكبر اسهام من اي بلد اخر منذ كارثة الزلزال وأمواج المد العاتية (تسونامي) التي ضربت البلاد في مارس 2011 وخلفت نحو 18
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Nuke plant clean-up may take 40 yearsThu, 11 Feb 2016 09:52:00 +0100.

The crippled nuclear reactor is now stable but the decommissioning process is making slow progress, says the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, better known as TEPCO. "If I may put this in terms of mountain climbing, we've just passe
...(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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),