M 4.9 in Japan on 15 Aug 2016 04:36 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 1091891
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 73.49 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.4934 , 131.8799
Event Date: 15 Aug 2016 04:36 UTC
15 Aug 2016 13:36 Local
Exposed Population:
2639648 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2016 04:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10006duj 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: 631 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Sismos y sus consecuencias se analizarán en QuitoFri, 19 Aug 2016 00:23:00 +0200.

, erupciones, deslaves, inundaciones. El sismo que asoló Manabí y Esmeraldas el pasado 16 de abril es un recorderis de esa fragilidad geográfica y geológica del país. Bajo esa coyuntura, el Colegio de Arquitectura de la Universidad San Fran
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5.7-magnitude earthquake hits AustraliaThu, 18 Aug 2016 23:43:00 +0200.

SYDNEY • A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled popular tourist towns stretching across more than 1,000km of Australia's north-eastern coastline yesterday. The quake hit at a depth of 7km about 54km off Bowen in Queensland state at around noon
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Queensland earthquake was latest in an active yearThu, 18 Aug 2016 23:12:00 +0200.

A third earthquake in a week has been recorded off the coast of Queensland and Geoscience Australia says there's been quite a few in the past 12 months. The latest was a magnitude 4.1 quake recorded at 4.27am on Friday near Airlie Beach. Th
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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),