M 4.6 in Japan on 15 Apr 2016 21:40 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 1084474
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.9677 , 130.8866
Event Date: 15 Apr 2016 21:40 UTC
16 Apr 2016 06:40 Local
Exposed Population:
9255399 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2016 22:06 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: 568 | About casualties: 64 | Last hour: 0

Fenomenul din zona contaminată Fukushima. Oamenii sunt îngroziți și nu ... Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:28:00 +0200.

Locurile infestate din zona de evacuare Fukushima nu au mai fost atinse de nimeni după dezastrul produs în urma unui tsunami. Acum, însă, mii de mistreți distrug tot ce le iese în cale, informează Acești mistreți sălbatici au fost contamina
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Ecuador: Informe de situación No.24 (19/04/2016) 8h30 Terremoto 7.8 ° ... Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:15:00 +0200.

I. INFORMACIÓN GENERAL. Se han activado 258 voluntarios de SGR de todo el país. SGR en los diferentes cantones se encuentra levantando información de EVIN. Se ha coordinado el trabajo de Grupos USAR – Internacionales de 7 países. Salida de
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Aftershocks rattle Japan as deaths from quakes rise to 45Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:57:00 +0200.

MINAMIASO: Japan’s southern quake-hit area was rattled by a strong aftershock yesterday and searchers found a woman’s body buried under landslide rubble, raising the death toll from the twin earthquakes to 45. More than 100,000 evacuees, so
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Terremoto en Ecuador: 480 muertos y más de 1.700 desaparecidosTue, 19 Apr 2016 20:57:00 +0200.

El fuerte terremoto de 7,8 grados en la escala abierta de Richter que azotó el sábado el norte de la región costera de Ecuador continúa cobrando la vida de cientos de personas. [ACTUALIZACIÓN 19/04/2016 A LAS 12:50 PM] El viceministro del
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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),