M 4.9 in Japan on 25 Feb 2017 02:50 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 1106391
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 19.81 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.4581 , 130.6677
Event Date: 25 Feb 2017 02:50 UTC
25 Feb 2017 11:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2017 03:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mcl Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),