M 4.7 in Japan on 15 May 2016 01:10 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 1086316
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 53.39 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.3373 , 142.1058
Event Date: 15 May 2016 01:10 UTC
15 May 2016 10:10 Local
Exposed Population:
1321199 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2016 01:33 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 974 | About casualties: 53 | Last hour: 0

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QUITO. Un sismo de magnitud 6,8 en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió hoy la costa norte de Ecuador, informó el Instituto Geofísico (IG), que previamente había indicado que la magnitud era de 6,7. El sismo ocurrió a 10 kilómetros de profu
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Terremoto Ecuador: 1 morto e 85 feriti dopo le ultime forti scosseThu, 19 May 2016 00:41:00 +0200.

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6.7 and 6.8 magnitude earthquakes hit EcuadorThu, 19 May 2016 00:39:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),