M 5.4 in Japan on 16 Apr 2016 00:48 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 1084491
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 9.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.8537 , 130.7785
Event Date: 16 Apr 2016 00:48 UTC
16 Apr 2016 09:48 Local
Exposed Population:
8658489 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2016 01:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
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: 594 | About casualties: 66 | Last hour: 0

¿Los terremotos de Ecuador y Japón anticipan una tragedia en Perú?Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:31:00 +0200.

El terremoto que azotó a la isla japonesa de Kyushu el viernes 15 de abril y el que golpeó a Ecuador un día después hace presumir a muchos que el Perú podría ser el centro de una nueva tragedia. Si bien nuestro país está dentro del conocido
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Membangun Kota Waspada Bencana PADA waktu yang hampir bersamaan, dua g ... Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:21:00 +0200.

PADA waktu yang hampir bersamaan, dua gempa besar melanda dunia. Gempa dahsyat berkekuatan 7,3 magnitudo di prefektur Kumamoto, Pulau Kyushu, Jepang, dan gempa berkekuatan 7,8 magnitudo di Pedernales, Ekuador. Rumah dan gedung runtuh, jemba
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UN cites need for stringent building codes after deadly quakes hit Jap ... Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:20:00 +0200.

19 April 2016 #150 The Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ( UNISDR ) said today that the deaths in Ecuador and the dozens of victims in Japan spotlighted a basic fact about earthquakes; that buildings, and not the
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Erdbeben in Ecuador - Zahl der Toten in Ecuador steigt auf fast 500Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:15:00 +0200.

Die Zahl der Todesopfer durch das verheerende Erdbeben in Ecuador hat sich auf mindestens 480 erhöht. Dies teilte das Sicherheitsministerium am Montagabend mit. Der Katastrophendienst verzeichnete außerdem 2658 Verletzte und das Rote Kreuz
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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),