M 4.9 in Japan on 01 Oct 2016 09:40 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 1095049
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.7428 , 141.6232
Event Date: 01 Oct 2016 09:40 UTC
01 Oct 2016 18:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2016 09:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006uct 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: 585 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

Philippines: Turnover Ceremony of a Japan funded Two-Storey “Piloti” t ... Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:26:00 +0200.

Embassy of Japan’s First Secretary Kenji Terada, together with JICA Headquarters’ Sectional Representative Atsutoshi Hirabayashi, JICA Philippines Office’s Sectional Representative Yoshiyuki Ueno, Department of Agriculture Bureau of Fisheri
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Le typhon Chaba s'approche de l'ouest du JaponWed, 05 Oct 2016 09:18:00 +0200.

Le typhon Chaba, qui a déjà balayé le sud du Japon et une partie de la Corée du Sud, a bifurqué vers l'est et menace désormais une large partie de l'ouest de l'archipel. Les autorités ont mis en garde contre les hautes vagues, vents violent
...(more)
Powerful typhoon Chaba barrels towards JapanWed, 05 Oct 2016 09:16:00 +0200.

By AFP 56 mins ago in World Authorities issued storm and heavy rain warnings on Wednesday as powerful typhoon Chaba barrelled toward Japan, after it hit a South Korean resort island causing flight cancellations and flooding streets. The vi
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Le typhon Chaba s'approche de l'ouest du JaponWed, 05 Oct 2016 09:10:00 +0200.

Le typhon Chaba, qui a déjà balayé le sud du Japon et une partie de la Corée du Sud, a bifurqué vers l'est et menace désormais une large partie de l'ouest de l'archipel. Les autorités ont mis en garde contre les hautes vagues, vents violent
...(more)

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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),