M 5.4 in Japan on 27 Jul 2016 14:47 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 1090772
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 46.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.478 , 140.6573
Event Date: 27 Jul 2016 14:47 UTC
27 Jul 2016 23:47 Local
Exposed Population:
5855566 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2016 15:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006i35 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: 575 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Una mujer, Yuriko Koike, por primera vez electa gobernadora de TokioSun, 31 Jul 2016 14:11:00 +0200.

Por primera vez, una mujer, Yuriko Koike, fue elegida gobernadora de la ciudad de Tokio, informaron el domingo las cadenas de televisión japonesas basándose en sus propios sondeos a pie de urna. Yuriko Koike, de 64 años, exministra de Medio
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Une femme élue pour la première fois gouverneur de Tokyo: sondages méd ... Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:42:00 +0200.

Tokyo - Pour la première fois, une femme, Yuriko Koike, a été élue gouverneur de la ville de Tokyo, ont rapporté dimanche les chaînes de télévision japonaises sur la base de leurs propres sondages de sortie des bureaux de vote. Elue pour qu
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National Maritime Polytechnic receives new equipmentSun, 31 Jul 2016 12:49:00 +0200.

As one of the projects under the “Japan-funded Program for the Rehabilitation and Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda”, the government of Japan turned over the equipment of National Maritime Polytechnic (NMP) to the Philippine government in a cer
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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),