M 4.6 in Japan on 16 Apr 2016 00:16 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 1084488
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 5.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.5615 , 130.5634
Event Date: 16 Apr 2016 00:16 UTC
16 Apr 2016 09:16 Local
Exposed Population:
5511536 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2016 00:36 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: 675 | About casualties: 77 | Last hour: 0

Natural disasters since 1900 ‘have cost $7 trillion’Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:13:00 +0200.

Vienna, April 19. Natural disasters have caused more than $7 trillion (6.2 trillion euros) in economic damage worldwide since 1900, with floods and storms accounting for nearly 60 per cent of the total, researchers said on Monday. The deat
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Catastrophes naturelles : plus de 8 millions de morts depuis 1900Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:11:00 +0200.

Plus de 8 millions de personnes sont décédées dans des catastrophes naturelles dans le monde depuis 1900, selon une étude publiée par le Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Tremblements de terre, inondations, tempêtes, volcans, feux… Tous n'
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Ecuador: estiman millonarios daños por el terremotoTue, 19 Apr 2016 23:52:00 +0200.

Redacción El Litoral. Agencias EFE/DPA. El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, calculó hoy que la reconstrucción de las zonas afectadas por el terremoto del pasado sábado en Ecuador costará “miles de millones de dólares”, mientras que la
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Japan bunker fuel market unaffected by Kumamoto earthquakes: tradeTue, 19 Apr 2016 23:38:00 +0200.

“There’s been no impact on Japan’s bunkering supplies or operations due to the earthquakes at Kumamoto,” a trader said Tuesday, adding that Kumamoto is not known as an active region for the bunkering industry. Another source agreed, saying:
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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),