M 4.8 in Japan on 27 Feb 2016 15:37 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 1081481
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 23.77 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.9364 , 142.5653
Event Date: 27 Feb 2016 15:37 UTC
28 Feb 2016 01:37 Local
Exposed Population:
344970 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2016 17:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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: 1095 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

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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),