M 4.5 in Japan on 19 Feb 2016 01:50 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 1080896
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 53.18 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.6346 , 140.243
Event Date: 19 Feb 2016 01:50 UTC
19 Feb 2016 10:50 Local
Exposed Population:
36904732 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2016 02:27 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Quake donations reach NT$3.5 bil.: Tainan mayor 2/22/2016 7:24:00 PM.

TAIPEI -- Donations in the wake of the Feb. 6 earthquake are enough to take care of victims of the quake and pay for reconstruction, Tainan Mayor Lai Ching-te said Monday. As of Feb. 19, a total of NT$2.94 billion (US$88.54 million) had
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Quake donations reach NT$3.5 billion: Tainan mayor 2/22/2016 12:55:00 PM.

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),