M 5.2 in Southeast Of Easter Island on 10 Apr 2016 15:46 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 1084084
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 12.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.052 , -91.2912
Event Date: 10 Apr 2016 15:46 UTC
10 Apr 2016 09:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2016 17:33 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 513 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Powerful earthquake strikes south JapanThu, 14 Apr 2016 15:58:00 +0200.

TOKYO -- A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck southern Japan on Thursday, causing some damage but there was no danger of a tsunami. Officials said they were still assessing the damage. Keisukei Urata, an official
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Fort tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,4 au JaponThu, 14 Apr 2016 15:57:00 +0200.

Un «fort» tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,4 s’est produit jeudi soir (heure locale) dans le sud-ouest du Japon, dans la préfecture de Kumamoto, où se trouvent plusieurs centrales nucléaires. Il n’y a pas de risque de tsunami, a précisé
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Strong 6.4 Magnitude Quake Hits Southwestern JapanThu, 14 Apr 2016 15:57:00 +0200.

NNA - A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu on Thursday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, local authorities said. The quake struck at 9:26 pm (1226 GMT) in Kumamoto, central Kyushu at a relatively
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Japon: "fort" tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,4 au sud-ouestThu, 14 Apr 2016 15:57:00 +0200.

Des écoliers japonais s'abritent sous leur pupitres, lors d'un tremblement de terre, dans une école de Tokyo, le 2 septembre 2013YOSHIKAZU TSUNO. Un "fort" tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,4 s'est produit jeudi soir dans le sud-ouest du
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),