M 5.1 in Bonin Islands, Japan Region on 26 Feb 2017 23:17 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 1106543
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 16.68 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.8521 , 144.1233
Event Date: 26 Feb 2017 23:17 UTC
27 Feb 2017 09:17 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2017 00:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mka Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 934 | About casualties: 46 | Last hour: 0

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3.5 Million Americans at Risk from Man-Made EarthquakesThu, 02 Mar 2017 22:08:00 +0100.

The vast majority of those at risk are in Oklahoma and southern Kansas, as well as parts of Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee. "The good news is that the overall seismic hazard for this year is lower than in the 2016 f
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3.5 Million Americans at Risk from Man-Made EarthquakesThu, 02 Mar 2017 22:08:00 +0100.

The vast majority of those at risk are in Oklahoma and southern Kansas, as well as parts of Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee. "The good news is that the overall seismic hazard for this year is lower than in the 2016 f
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),