M 7.8 in Bonin Islands, Japan Region on 30 May 2015 11:23 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 1056259
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.8M
Depth: 677.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8312 , 140.4932
Event Date: 30 May 2015 11:23 UTC
30 May 2015 20:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people in MMI
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 May 2015 11:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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.
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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 (88), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),