M 5.3 in Japan on 02 Mar 2017 14:53 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 1106861
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 49.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.6248 , 132.1436
Event Date: 02 Mar 2017 14:53 UTC
02 Mar 2017 23:53 Local
Exposed Population:
1280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2017 15:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us100086hr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 508 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

حول بيع وتسريب العقارات المقدسية ...راسم عبيداتMon, 06 Mar 2017 13:33:00 +0100.

مما لا شك فيه بأن اوسلو جلب لشعبنا المصائب والكوارث،وتجلياتها كانت على مدينة القدس أشمل واكبر،حيث اوسلو جعل مصير اهل القدس وشؤون حياتهم عرضة للإفتراس من قبل المحتل،فالمقدسي محروم من الحصول على جواز سفر فلسطيني،والسلطة في نظر الشعب الفلسطيني
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Few takers for free disaster relief housing in FukushimaMon, 06 Mar 2017 11:39:00 +0100.

FUKUSHIMA – Buildings converted from temporary housing units in Fukushima Prefecture have had few takers despite being offered free of charge, due partly to insufficient publicity, a prefectural official said Monday. Only three of 430 publi
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Earthquake hits off Papua New GuineaMon, 06 Mar 2017 11:28:00 +0100.

An earthquake measuring 6.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit 32 km northwest of Kandrian in Papua New Guinea on Monday. According to the US Geological Survey, USGS, the quake struck the tropical island nation at a depth of 28 km. There ar
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زلزال بقوة 6.5 درجة يضرب بابوا غينيا الجديدةMon, 06 Mar 2017 11:19:00 +0100.

بورت مورسيبي - العمانية ضرب زلزال بلغت قوته 6.5 درجة على مقياس ريختر اليوم بابوا غينيا الجديدة دون أن ترد أي أنباء عن سقوط ضحايا أو أضرار مادية جراء الهزة الأرضية القوية وأعلن مركز المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكي أن الزلزال وقع على عمق 28 كيلومترا
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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),