M 4.6 in Japan on 12 Mar 2016 00:24 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 1082303
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 24.68 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.1759 , 141.8829
Event Date: 12 Mar 2016 00:24 UTC
12 Mar 2016 09:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2016 01:27 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 441 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

Health experts train local communities to prepare for disastersWed, 16 Mar 2016 00:19:00 +0100.

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Health experts train local communities to prepare for disastersWed, 16 Mar 2016 00:07:00 +0100.

By Alisa Tang. BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When natural disasters strike, most public health risks come from sectors such as housing and construction, says Iranian health and disaster expert Ali Ardalan. A shoddy building collaps
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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),