M 5.7 in Japan on 15 Apr 2016 16:45 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 1084452
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.8805 , 130.8463
Event Date: 15 Apr 2016 16:45 UTC
16 Apr 2016 01:45 Local
Exposed Population:
8669814 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2016 17:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
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: 3554 | About casualties: 612 | Last hour: 0

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. Methanausbrüche erzeugen im Meeresboden mitunter riesige Krater - und könnten theoretisch sogar zum Untergang von Schiffen führen. Auch im Bermudadreieck? Sehr unwahrscheinlich, meinen Meeresforscher. Malin Waage und Alexey Portnov haben
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10:47 | Podría provocar un enorme tsunami y matar a miles de personas. Donde sería. Los sismos que golpearon Ecuador y Japón la semana pasada no están relacionados, aseguran expertos, pero el aumento de la actividad sísmica hace temer un
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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),