M 4.6 in Japan on 05 Jan 2017 17:39 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 1102597
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 38.6385 , 142.3564
Event Date: 05 Jan 2017 17:39 UTC
06 Jan 2017 02:39 Local
Exposed Population:
200000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2017 19:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007rgy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 473 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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GEMPA dengan getaran cukup kencang dan kuat guncang sebagian besar wilayah Sumatra Barat. Untuk sementara belum ada laporan kerusakan, tetapi getarannya sempat membuat warga berhamburan. Berdasarkan data Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan
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How I Explained the Election to My SonMon, 09 Jan 2017 16:30:00 +0100.

The bile that I vomited into the kitchen sink was acid. It flooded me like an intimate tsunami and seared my insides. It broke me into thousands of glassy pieces. Shards of glass that should have been around at our feet in such a different
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Indian slum dwellers pushed to city fringes face leaking pipes, lost j ... Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:07:00 +0100.

By Rina Chandran. CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life. But
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Chennai slum dwellers pushed to city fringes face leaking pipes, lost ... Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:59:00 +0100.

By Rina Chandran. CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in Chennai, where he had lived all his life. But his dream faded last Februar
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),