M 5 in Japan on 06 Feb 2017 11:58 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 1104908
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 19.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.591 , 142.5173
Event Date: 06 Feb 2017 11:58 UTC
06 Feb 2017 21:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2017 12:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008hwy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 377 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Altos niveles de radiación obligan a retirar robot del reactor 2 de Fu ... Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:28:00 +0100.

La operadora de la central nuclear de Fukushima difundió hoy nuevas imágenes del robot que ha logrado introducir dentro de su reactor número 2, donde se han detectado niveles extremadamente altos de radiación que obligaron a la retirada del
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Japan Backs IOM Aid Operations in Drought-Stricken SomaliaFri, 10 Feb 2017 10:56:00 +0100.

Somalia - The Government of Japan has committed over USD 3.6 million to support IOM’s response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The funds will help IOM address urgent needs of vulnerable migrants, internally displaced persons
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ذاكرة السينما: فيلم "الشاطئ"Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:46:00 +0100.

هو فيلم مغامرة ودراما أُصدر في المملكة المتحدة والولايات المتحدة سنة 2000. الفيلم من إخراج داني بويل، وهو مأخوذٌ من روايةٍ تحمل نفس الاسم صدرت عام 1996 للكاتب أليكس جارلند. تم تكييف الرواية لتكون الفيلم من قِبل الكاتب المسرحي جون هودج. الفي
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Facebook now lets you give help to others during emergenciesFri, 10 Feb 2017 10:35:00 +0100.

By James Walker 14 hours ago in Technology Facebook has expanded its Safety Check crisis relief feature to let unaffected people contribute aid to the community. Safety Check can now be used to ask for and offer help, whether it's physical
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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),