M 6.2 in Japan on 21 Oct 2016 05:07 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 1096110
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.3579 , 133.8013
Event Date: 21 Oct 2016 05:07 UTC
21 Oct 2016 14:07 Local
Exposed Population: 3040000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2016 05:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
us20007fta 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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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 (48), (3), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),