M 4.7 in Japan on 17 Mar 2016 18:59 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 1082690
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 47.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.4356 , 142.2475
Event Date: 17 Mar 2016 18:59 UTC
18 Mar 2016 03:59 Local
Exposed Population:
920147 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2016 20:21 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 597 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

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Fukushima Farmers Are Using Soil Made From PolyesterMon, 21 Mar 2016 17:02:00 +0100.

Workers inspect radiation levels in Tomioka, Fukushima in 2014. AP/Shizuo Kambayashi. It’s been five years since Japan’s Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima—and some consumers are still wary of produce grown in the
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El largo brazo de la justiciaMon, 21 Mar 2016 15:43:00 +0100.

S e viene un tsunami. El epicentro del terremoto es Brasil. Producto de la confluencia de los grupos de poder económico paraestatal y de la clase política arropada de socialismo rastrero, encabezada por Lula da Silva y Dilma Rousseff, se pe
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Agreement on integrated research on earthquakeMon, 21 Mar 2016 14:50:00 +0100.

KATHMANDU: The Department of Mines and Geology and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Monday signed an agreement regarding an integrated research on earthquake and disaster mitigation in Nepal. Department’s Director General Ra
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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),