M 4.6 in Japan on 07 Oct 2016 00:14 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 1095353
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 58.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.0019 , 142.5273
Event Date: 07 Oct 2016 00:14 UTC
07 Oct 2016 09:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 98615 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Oct 2016 00:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007cgw 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 490 | About casualties: 31 | Last hour: 0

El Salvador se prepara para otro sismo como el de 30 años atrásMon, 10 Oct 2016 23:40:00 +0200.

San Salvador, El Salvador Autoridades de Protección Civil de El Salvador efectuaron este lunes un simulacro de tsunami y de terremoto para preparar a la población para un desastre natural, a 30 años de un sismo que sembró muerte y destrucci
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El Salvador se prepara para otro sismo como el de 30 años atrásMon, 10 Oct 2016 23:08:00 +0200.

San Salvador El Salvador AFP Autoridades de Protección Civil de El Salvador efectuaron este lunes un simulacro de tsunami y de terremoto para preparar a la población para un desastre natural, a 30 años de un sismo que sembró muerte y destru
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Living in earthquake country: a step-by-step guide to preparing for th ... Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:37:00 +0200.

Beyond securing heavy objects, it’s important to make sure your appliances, especially the ones that use gas, are held tightly in place. Earthquake straps, available at almost all hardware stores, around hot water heaters and other applianc
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Conmemoran 30 aniversario de terremoto con Gran Simulacro NacionalMon, 10 Oct 2016 22:25:00 +0200.

Conmemoran hoy, con el Gran Simulacro Nacional que evaluará la capacidad del país frente a desastres, el 30 aniversario del terremoto que en 1986 causó la muerte de 1.500 personas y dejó más de 200.000 damnificados. El 10 de octubre de 1986
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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),