M 4.6 in Japan on 17 Jun 2016 11:50 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 1088341
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.2778 , 141.9599
Event Date: 17 Jun 2016 11:50 UTC
17 Jun 2016 20:50 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2016 13:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006519 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 368 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Japan utility: Delay in declaring ‘meltdown’ was coverupTue, 21 Jun 2016 11:37:00 +0200.

TOKYO – The utility that ran the Fukushima nuclear plant has acknowledged its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactors was tantamount to a coverup and apologized for it. Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose’s apology
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Japan utility: Delay in declaring 'meltdown' was cover-upTue, 21 Jun 2016 11:32:00 +0200.

Muscatine, IA (52761) Today. Sunshine and clouds mixed. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 88F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.. Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms early, then mainly cloudy overnight with thunderstorms likely. A few st
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Japan utility: Delay in declaring 'meltdown' was cover-upTue, 21 Jun 2016 11:26:00 +0200.

Sioux City, IA (51101) Today. Sun and clouds mixed. A stray severe thunderstorm is possible. High 87F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.. Tonight. Partly cloudy. A stray severe thunderstorm is possible. Low around 70F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Up
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Japan Donates USD 500,000 to IOM Ecuador to Support Earthquake Relief ... Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:25:00 +0200.

Ecuador - The Government of Japan has released USD 500,000 to support IOM’s response to the 7.8 earthquake that struck the country's Pacific coast on 16 April and left approximately 80,000 people displaced. The Ambassador of Japan in Ecuado
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),