M 6 in Japan on 20 Aug 2016 09:01 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 1092208
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3564 , 143.6799
Event Date: 20 Aug 2016 09:01 UTC
20 Aug 2016 19:01 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2016 09:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006fdp 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1003 | About casualties: 36 | Last hour: 0

Quake brings down buildings in central Italy, at least 10 believed kil ... Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:50:00 +0200.

By Steve Scherer. ACCUMOLI, ITALY — A strong earthquake brought down buildings in mountainous central Italy early on Wednesday, trapping residents and sending others fleeing into the streets, with at least 10 people believed killed. The qua
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Quake brings down buildings in central Italy, at least 10 believed kil ... Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:46:00 +0200.

A strong earthquake brought down buildings in mountainous central Italy early on Wednesday, trapping residents and sending others fleeing into the streets, with at least 10 people believed killed. The quake caused serious damage to a number
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Deaths in Italy after 6.2-magnitude quake strikes central regionWed, 24 Aug 2016 08:39:00 +0200.

Residents move away from the scenes of destruction in Amatrice. Central Italy was struck by a powerful, 6.2-magnitude earthquake in the early hours, which has devastated dozens of mountain villages. A man stands amid extensive earthquake d
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Earthquake hits central Italy, at least 10 feared deadWed, 24 Aug 2016 08:37:00 +0200.

ACCUMOLI: A strong earthquake brought down buildings in mountainous central Italy early on Wednesday, trapping residents and sending others fleeing into the streets, with at least 10 people believed killed. The quake caused serious damage t
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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),