M 4.9 in Japan on 30 Aug 2016 20:04 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 1092949
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 22.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.327 , 141.7954
Event Date: 30 Aug 2016 20:04 UTC
31 Aug 2016 05:04 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2016 16:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006iv1 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: 1828 | About casualties: 102 | Last hour: 0

Varios sismos en Estados Unidos alertan a la poblaciónSat, 03 Sep 2016 17:57:00 +0200.

El Servicio geológico de Estados Unidos reportó dos sismos de importante magnitud, en las últimas horas. El primero tuvo lugar cerca de Pawnee, en Oklahoma, mientras que el segundo fue en la zona de California. Ambos tuvieron una intensidad
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Japón | En alerta por la llegada de un poderoso tifónSat, 03 Sep 2016 17:26:00 +0200.

Publicado 9:00 am por archivado en Las islas de Okinawa y Kyushu, al sudoeste del archipiélago nipón, se encuentran hoy en alerta meteorológica por la llegada del tifón Namtheun, que puede dejar a su paso lluvias torrenciales, fuertes vient
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Expert plays down Tepco president’s order not to use the term ‘meltdow ... Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:47:00 +0200.

The head of a panel of international nuclear experts Friday played down the importance of the decision by Tokyo Electric to not use the term “core meltdown” in describing the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex in the early day
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Battered Japan braces for new typhoonSat, 03 Sep 2016 15:01:00 +0200.

Japan was on alert for typhoon winds and heavy rain Saturday as the death toll from a devastating hurricane that hit Tohoku and parts of Hokkaido earlier this week rose to 15. Typhoon Namtheun was heading north towards the southern main isl
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),