M 5.3 in Japan on 15 Aug 2016 07:04 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 1091896
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 32.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.4138 , 141.7413
Event Date: 15 Aug 2016 07:04 UTC
15 Aug 2016 16:04 Local
Exposed Population: 120000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2016 07:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dvd 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),