M 4.6 in Japan on 02 Aug 2016 16:10 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 1091150
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 17.79 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.3799 , 140.4697
Event Date: 02 Aug 2016 16:10 UTC
03 Aug 2016 01:10 Local
Exposed Population:
20337956 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2016 18:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100069h8 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

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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),