M 4.9 in Japan on 13 May 2016 19:05 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 1086260
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 6.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.0622 , 129.2961
Event Date: 13 May 2016 19:05 UTC
14 May 2016 04:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44730 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2016 19:27 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: 737 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

‘Unusual’ Japanese quake leads to calls for a rethink on skyscraper de ... Tue, 17 May 2016 18:03:00 +0200.

Scientists studying the earthquake that struck southern Japan in April have identified a number of seismological factors that made the tremor so destructive – and warn that should the same factors combine beneath a major city it could bring
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Hawaii residents warned of devastating MEGA-TSUNAMI that could DESTROY ... Tue, 17 May 2016 17:45:00 +0200.

GETTY Sean Martin Hawaii has been warned about a mega-tsunami Researchers from the University of Hawaii have analysed the chances of there being an earthquake measuring at least nine on the Richter scale in the Aleutian Islands almost 2,500
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Un terremoto de 5,6 grados sacude TokioTue, 17 May 2016 16:40:00 +0200.

Un seísmo de 5,6 grados en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió hoy el centro de Japón, y se sintió en la ciudad de Tokio, sin que la agencia meteorológica nacional (JMA) emitiera una alerta de tsunami ni se informara de daños en la región.
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El avión más grande del mundo aterrizó en AustraliaTue, 17 May 2016 15:50:00 +0200.

Cuando el aterrizaje de un avión de carga es un espectáculo capaz de reunir más de 20.000 personas es porque debe ser algo extraordinario. Eso mismo ocurrió con la primera llegada a Australia del gigantesco Antonov An-225, el avión más gran
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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),