M 4.6 in Russian Federation on 16 Aug 2016 21:15 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 1091982
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 50.3009 , 142.3783
Event Date: 16 Aug 2016 21:15 UTC
17 Aug 2016 08:15 Local
Exposed Population:
About 38212 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2016 21:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ea0 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 461 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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20/08/2016 - 15h45 Terremoto de magnitude 6 atinge costa leste do Japão; não há alerta de tsunami. LONDRES - Um terremoto de magnitude 6,0 atingiu a costa leste do Japão na madrugada de domingo, informou o Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unid
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Un terremoto de 6 grados sacude la costa de JapónSat, 20 Aug 2016 20:35:00 +0200.

El Instituto de Estudios Geológicos de Estados Unidos ha registrado un seísmo de magnitud 6 a menos de 200 kilómetros de la costa este de Japón , que hasta el momento no ha causado ni víctimas ni daños materiales. El terremoto tuvo lugar ex
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طوكيو- (أ ف ب) سجل زلزال جديد بقوة ست درجات ليل السبت الاحد الساحل الشمالي الشرقي لليابان، هو الثالث في ثلاثة ايام في هذه المنطقة من دون ان توجه السلطات تحذيرا من حصول تسونامي ومن دون تسجيل ضحايا او اضرار. ووقع الزلزال الجديد في الساعة 00,5
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Magnitude 6 quake strikes off Japanese coastSat, 20 Aug 2016 20:21:00 +0200.

LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 6.0 struck off the east coast of Japan in the early hours of Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake's epicentre was offshore, 192 km (120 miles) east of Hachinohe, Honshu is
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),