M 4.7 in Japan on 14 Aug 2016 18:49 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 1091870
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 41.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.4865 , 141.5139
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 18:49 UTC
15 Aug 2016 03:49 Local
Exposed Population:
533246 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 19:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dsv 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: 621 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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زلزال بقوة 5.8 درجة يضرب مدينة كوينزلاند الأستراليةThu, 18 Aug 2016 18:03:00 +0200.

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Mozambique: Japan Donates $5 Million For Drought ReliefThu, 18 Aug 2016 16:05:00 +0200.

The Japanese government has donated five million US dollars to help the World Food Programme (WFP) provide food assistance between September and November 2016 to over 300,000 drought-affected people in the four worst affected countries in s
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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),