M 6.2 in Japan on 11 Nov 2016 21:42 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 1098096
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 44.83 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.4993 , 141.5611
Event Date: 11 Nov 2016 21:42 UTC
12 Nov 2016 06:42 Local
Exposed Population: 2440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Nov 2016 22:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
us1000770m 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: 1483 | About casualties: 149 | Last hour: 0

NZ quake: Aftershocks top 1500 as warships come to helpTue, 15 Nov 2016 21:11:00 +0100.

WHAT WE KNOW, WEDNESDAY NOV 16 KaiKoura is still cut off by road and rail after Monday's 7.5 magnitude quake. By late yesterday, more than 130 people, most of them stranded tourists, had been airlifted to Christchurch. Wellington highways a
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Las extrañas luces captadas en el cielo durante el terremoto de Nueva ... Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:58:00 +0100.

Pese a los pocos segundos, su presencia fue suficiente para llamar la atención y ser capturada por uno de los afectados por el evento sísmico. El pasado domingo 13 de noviembre un terremoto de 7,8 grados afectó a Nueva Zelanda, el que dejó
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Japão leva 48 horas para tapar cratera de 15 metros de profundidade em ... Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:51:00 +0100.

Eficiência Japão leva 48 horas para tapar cratera de 15 metros de profundidade em avenida Via foi liberada para o tráfego nesta terça-feira, uma semana após buraco ser aberto durante obras de ampliação de uma linha do metrô. Uma cratera ab
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NZ's 7.5 magnitude earthquake a monster in the making, Geonet director ... Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:40:00 +0100.

In terms of the tsunami, I said it here in the M7.1 East Cape Earthquake . Because we do not have a 24/7 monitoring centre we have to wake people and get them out of bed to look at complex data and make serious calls very quickly. It is not
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),