M 5.2 in Japan on 09 Sep 2016 11:53 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 1093605
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 31.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.3855 , 141.0932
Event Date: 09 Sep 2016 11:53 UTC
09 Sep 2016 20:53 Local
Exposed Population:
2204609 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Sep 2016 12:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006nax 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: 533 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

Magma accumulation highlights growing threat from Japanese volcanoTue, 13 Sep 2016 11:42:00 +0200.

Sakurajima volcano with downtown Kagoshima in the foreground. Credit: Sakurajima Volcano Research Centre. A research team led by the University of Bristol has found magma build-up beneath Japan's Aira caldera and Sakurajima volcano may indi
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Terremoti innescati dalla luna piena e dalle maree. E’ statisticoTue, 13 Sep 2016 11:39:00 +0200.

. Pubblicato il 13 settembre 2016 11:26 | Ultimo aggiornamento: 13 settembre 2016 11:26 ROMA – I grandi terremoti, quelli sotto alla cui forza distruttiva è impossibile resistere, potrebbero essere innescati dalla luna piena. I più devasta
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Géologie - La Lune aurait une influence sur les séismesTue, 13 Sep 2016 10:19:00 +0200.

Selon les chercheurs japonais à l'origine des travaux, l'étude des marées dans les régions sismiques pourrait donc aider à évaluer les risques. Les forces d'attraction gravitationnelle (la gravité) de la Lune et du Soleil ont un effet non n
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5.8 ريخترات، أكبر الزلازل قوة في تاريخ كورياTue, 13 Sep 2016 10:08:00 +0200.

وقعت هزة أرضية بلغت قوتها 5.8 على مقياس ريختر في منطقة تبعد 8 كيلومترات عن جنوب غرب مدينة "كيونغ جو" شمال مقاطعة "كيونغ سانغ" في الساعة الثامنة والدقيقة الثانية والثلاثين مساء أمس الإثنين ليصبح أكبر الزلازل قوة منذ بدء عملية رصد الزلازل في
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),