M 4.8 in Japan on 19 Sep 2016 23:46 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 1094250
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 43.34 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.27 , 142.489
Event Date: 19 Sep 2016 23:46 UTC
20 Sep 2016 08:46 Local
Exposed Population:
192083 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006qy2 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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),