Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 16 Apr 2016 00:16 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 16 Apr 2016 00:16 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 1084488
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	5.37 Km
Lat/Lon:	32.5615 , 130.5634
Event Date:	16 Apr 2016 00:16 UTC 16 Apr 2016 09:16 Local
Exposed Population:	5511536 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Apr 2016 00:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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

Japan bunker fuel market unaffected by Kumamoto earthquakes: trade 4/19/2016 11:38:00 PM.

“There’s been no impact on Japan’s bunkering supplies or operations due to the earthquakes at Kumamoto,” a trader said Tuesday, adding that Kumamoto is not known as an active region for the bunkering industry. Another source agreed, saying:

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Earthquake spares Fijian 4/19/2016 11:14:00 PM.

A FIJIAN living in the Kanto area on Honshu Island in Japan says he does not fear or worry so much about a major earthquake striking the area he lives in. Leone Gukirewa Karawalevu, a schoolteacher, said: "As far as I am concerned, for thos

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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