M 5 in Japan on 24 Feb 2016 16:10 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 1081273
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 44.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.3164 , 141.8767
Event Date: 24 Feb 2016 16:10 UTC
25 Feb 2016 01:10 Local
Exposed Population:
2336562 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2016 16:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 567 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Relatos sobrenaturales en la zona devastada por el tsunami de 2011 en ... Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:59:00 +0100.

A pocos días del quinto aniversario del terremoto de magnitud nueve seguido de un tsunami en Japón, han vuelto a surgir los relatos de los pobladores de una de las zonas afectadas sobre fenómenos sobrenaturales , como apariciones de espírit
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Tepco plans dialogue with residents on Fukushima reactor decommissioni ... Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:52:00 +0100.

FUKUSHIMA – Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to set up a forum for dialogue with residents in Fukushima Prefecture about the company’s work to decommission reactors at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant damaged in a powerful earthquake and tsu
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Japón: Los relatos de fantasmas en zona la del tsunami de 2011Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:46:00 +0100.

Profesionales de diferentes áreas han investigado las causas de estas historias desde que comenzaron a ser difundidas por la prensa, unos meses después de la tragedia que devastó el litoral noreste de Japón y dejó más de 15.000 muertos. Par
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Presidenta Bachelet visitará zona en reconstrucción en sexto aniversar ... Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:49:00 +0100.

A seis años desde que un terremoto de 8.8 grados Richter y un posterior tsunami azotaran duramente la zona centro sur de nuestro país, este fin de semana la presidenta Michelle Bachelet visitará en terreno la zona que aún sigue en reconstru
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),