M 4.9 in Japan on 21 Oct 2016 18:33 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 1096164
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 48.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.7727 , 131.8768
Event Date: 21 Oct 2016 18:33 UTC
22 Oct 2016 03:33 Local
Exposed Population:
1632497 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Oct 2016 15:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007fz9 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: 556 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Storm alertsTue, 25 Oct 2016 18:08:00 +0200.

LAWMAKERS this week reported that the two large telecommunications companies, PLDT and Globe, failed to send out storm alerts to mobile phone users as required by law during the last typhoon. Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlo Isagani Zarate
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Washington state so 'unprepared' for megaquake that survivors could be ... Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:02:00 +0200.

Scientists have long believed that Washington will be hit hard if the Cascadia Fault - which stretches, mostly off the shore, from Canada to California - were to suddenly break. Cascadia, which last had a megaquake in 1700 and so is about d
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Washington state so 'unprepared' for megaquake that survivors could be ... Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:47:00 +0200.

Scientists have long believed that Washington will be hit hard if the Cascadia Fault - which stretches, mostly off the shore, from Canada to California - were to suddenly break. Cascadia, which last had a megaquake in 1700 and so is about d
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Sobrevivir a una desastre natural repercute en la salud mental de los ... Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:05:00 +0200.

El terremoto de 9 grados de magnitud y el posterior tsunami ocurridos en Japón en marzo de 2011 se llevaron más de 15.000 vidas. Fueron los mayores de 65 años los más perjudicados. Hoy, cinco años más tarde, los que sobrevivieron siguen sie
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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),