M 4.8 in Indonesia on 16 Aug 2016 23:56 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 1091989
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 27.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.8105 , 95.3676
Event Date: 16 Aug 2016 23:56 UTC
17 Aug 2016 06:56 Local
Exposed Population:
About 67227 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2016 00:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006eb7 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: 547 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

National › M6.0 quake strikes off IwateSat, 20 Aug 2016 23:38:00 +0200.

TOKYO. A strong earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan for a third consecutive day early Sunday though there were no immediate reports of people injured or damage. The shallow 6.0 magnitude quake hit at 12:58 a.m. 170 kilometers
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زلزال بقوة 6 درجات يضرب اليابان ولا انذار بامواج مد تسونامي منذ 28 دقي ... Sat, 20 Aug 2016 23:29:00 +0200.

ضرب زلزال قوي لليوم الثاني على التوالي اليابان بلغت قوته 6 درجات على مقياس ريختر قبالة الساحل الشمالي للبلاد على بعد 167 كلم من مدينة مياكي، دون الاعلان حتى الان عن سقوط ضحايا او حدوث اضرار. وأوضح المعهد الاميركي للجيوفيزياء ان الزلزال وقع
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U Japanu potres magnitude 6, nema upozorenja za tsunamiSat, 20 Aug 2016 23:19:00 +0200.

Novi potres magnitude 6 zabilježen je noći između subote i nedjelje blizu sjeveroistočne obale Japana , treći jaki potres u tri dana u tom području koji ne prijeti izazivanjem tsunamija, navode vlasti koje nisu obznanile podatke o mogućim ž
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U Japanu novi potres magnitude 6, nije pokrenuta uzbuna na tsunamiSat, 20 Aug 2016 23:08:00 +0200.

Novi potres magnitude 6 zabilježen je noći između subote i nedjelje blizu sjeveroistočne obale Japana, treći jaki potres u tri dana u tom području koji ne prijeti izazivanjem tsunamija, navode vlasti koje nisu obznanile podatke o mogućim žr
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),