M 4.5 in Japan on 04 Jul 2016 13:48 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 1089343
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 48.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.1361 , 139.705
Event Date: 04 Jul 2016 13:48 UTC
04 Jul 2016 22:48 Local
Exposed Population:
40257812 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jul 2016 15:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10005zu6 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: 350 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Hong Kong pollution hits highest rating on hottest day of the yearFri, 08 Jul 2016 12:32:00 +0200.

Pollution levels across Hong Kong hit the government’s highest rating on the hottest day of the year on Friday, while Taiwan and eastern China continued to feel the force of severe typhoon Nepartak. Murk and haze obscured the view across Vi
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Tube stuffed with explosive material was found after blast ...Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:57:00 +0200.

Dazu berichtet voanews.com: Authorities in Taiwan say an explosion and fire on a commuter train has wounded 25 passengers, some seriously Police say what appears to be a pipe bomb exploded on one of the cars lat Thursday, setting off a fire
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Ama e Atac, ecco le prime emergenze raccolta dei rifiuti a rischio per ... Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:57:00 +0200.

Astronomia : cerchi celesti nel remoto deserto di Atac [FOTO] Ama : Per riprendere questa fotografia della settimana, l’ambasciatore fotografo di ESO Adhemar Duro si fermò lungo la strada che porta agli osservatori di ESO in Cile. Questa st
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Hundreds of flights cancelled or disrupted as super typhoon Nepartak s ... Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:01:00 +0200.

Hundreds of flights steered clear of the path of super typhoon Nepartak as the eye of the storm made landfall on Friday morning, battering the southern tip of Taiwan. On the second day of air travel disruption, about 400 flights were cancel
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),