M 4.5 in Japan on 24 Jul 2016 00:51 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 1090516
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 54.86 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.5798 , 140.3568
Event Date: 24 Jul 2016 00:51 UTC
24 Jul 2016 09:51 Local
Exposed Population:
35232684 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2016 01:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006h5x 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 626 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

زلزال ليلي يضرب المحافظات الشرقية قرب طوكيوWed, 27 Jul 2016 23:32:00 +0200.

طوكيو 27 تموز (بترا)-تعرضت محافظة إيباراكي اليابانية شمال شرق طوكيو والمطلة على المحيط الهادي إلى زلزال قوي بدرجة 5.3 على المقياس الياباني المسمى شيندو، أدى لاهتزازات قوية في المحافظات المجاورة ومنها طوكيو قبل دقائق من منتصف ليلة الأربعاء.
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Australia's coordinates out by more than a metre, scientists sayWed, 27 Jul 2016 23:17:00 +0200.

The continent of Australia is on the move and experts at Geoscience Australia are trying to keep up. A team of scientists is about to recalculate the nation's latitude and longitude coordinates, which are currently out by more than 1.5 metr
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Un sismo de magnitud 5,4 sacude la parte central de JapónWed, 27 Jul 2016 23:16:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 5,4 se ha registrado en la isla de Honshu, la principal del archipiélago japonés, que incluye la prefectura de Fukushima, escenario de una catástrofe nuclear tras el terremoto y el tsunami de 2011. Los temblores se
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Australia's latitude and longitude coordinates out by more than 1.5 me ... Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:59:00 +0200.

The continent of Australia is on the move and experts at Geoscience Australia are trying to keep up. A team of scientists are about to recalculate the nation's latitude and longitude coordinates, which are currently out by more than 1.5 met
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),