M 4.7 in Japan on 18 Dec 2015 18:41 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 1076275
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 63.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.8179 , 141.8396
Event Date: 18 Dec 2015 18:41 UTC
19 Dec 2015 03:41 Local
Exposed Population:
1939879 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2015 21:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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: 10 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Alisa Tang 12/22/2015 6:25:00 PM.

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Inició simulacro nacional multiamenazas 12/22/2015 6:02:00 PM.

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Indonesia: suspenden licencia a empresas causantes de incendios 12/22/2015 4:38:00 PM.

El Gobierno de Indonesia identificó a 16 empresas como responsables de los incendios registrados en las islas de Sumatra y Borneo, que ocasionaron una nube de humo tóxica que afectó a varios países de la región. Así lo informó la ministra d
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Roma-Viterbo, rubano rame alla stazione Quattro Venti: arrestati 4 rom 12/22/2015 4:23:00 PM.

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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

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),