M 4.6 in Japan on 12 Nov 2016 22:43 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 1098169
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 18.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.0069 , 142.0324
Event Date: 12 Nov 2016 22:43 UTC
13 Nov 2016 07:43 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Nov 2016 23:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007766 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),