M 4.7 in Japan on 08 Oct 2016 18:28 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 1095449
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 58.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.6599 , 127.5141
Event Date: 08 Oct 2016 18:28 UTC
09 Oct 2016 03:28 Local
Exposed Population:
1276825 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Oct 2016 20:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007ctq 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

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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),