M 4.5 in Japan on 28 Nov 2016 08:46 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 1099546
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.2656 , 141.547
Event Date: 28 Nov 2016 08:46 UTC
28 Nov 2016 17:46 Local
Exposed Population:
480099 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Nov 2016 22:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007czp 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: 517 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Philippines: Reconstruction aid project for Central Philippines after ... Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:34:00 +0100.

Completion of renovation and reconstruction of 96 classrooms in 9 schools. The reconstruction aid project of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS), which has supported the central Philippines 3 years ago, where there was huge damage by ‘Hai
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RESSEN - Het dorp Ressen in de gemeente Lingewaard lijkt het slachtoffer te worden van gebrek aan geld voor een rondweg. Al zo'n twintig jaar staat de aanleg van de Dorpensingel-Oost op de kaart, maar nu niemand die wil betalen dreigt een '
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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),