M 4.9 in Japan on 19 Mar 2016 01:27 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 1082769
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 34.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.9583 , 126.8319
Event Date: 19 Mar 2016 01:27 UTC
19 Mar 2016 09:27 Local
Exposed Population:
About 16236 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Mar 2016 01:45 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 637 | About casualties: 36 | Last hour: 0

Port Waikato residents use emergency wine to avoid disasterWed, 23 Mar 2016 00:51:00 +0100.

Wine might not be the the first thing you put into your emergency survival kit, but for Port Waikato residents, 'Panic Proof Pinot' was the booze on offer to entice the community to prepare for an emergency. The rural and somewhat isolated
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العرب أثبتوا للعالم أنهم أمة تعشق الحريةWed, 23 Mar 2016 00:22:00 +0100.

تواصلت فعاليات منتدى الجزيرة العاشر لليوم الثاني على التوالي، وبدأت الجلسة الأولى بكلمة للشيخ راشد الغنوشي قال فيها إن بلاد العرب ظلت سجنا كبيرا يمارس فيه الطغاة هوايتهم وكل أشكال القمع والاستبداد، حتى خرج الشاب محمد البوعزيزي وأضرم النار ف
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International crises heighten study-abroad awarenessWed, 23 Mar 2016 00:22:00 +0100.

Today, it’s Belgium. Before, it was France. There also is Brazil, where the Zika virus is rampant. And tomorrow could bring an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane somewhere else. The drumbeat of terror attacks, health risks and natural disaste
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Plan calls for 140,000 SDF, police, firefighting ranks to converge on ... Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:45:00 +0100.

The government will dispatch up to 140,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel, police officers and firefighters from across Japan to the Tokyo metropolitan area in the event of a magnitude 7-class earthquake occurring directly beneath the area,
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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),