M 4.8 in Japan on 14 Feb 2016 19:12 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 1080634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 43.98 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.8377 , 123.3064
Event Date: 14 Feb 2016 19:12 UTC
15 Feb 2016 03:12 Local
Exposed Population:
About 9276 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2016 20:00 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 491 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

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North Korea Nuclear Tests Could Agitate VolcanoThu, 18 Feb 2016 17:45:00 +0100.

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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),