M 5.1 in Japan on 24 Mar 2017 16:43 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 1108560
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 85.23 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.9117 , 127.2388
Event Date: 24 Mar 2017 16:43 UTC
25 Mar 2017 00:43 Local
Exposed Population:
1200000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Mar 2017 17:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.8 -0.8
us20008uci Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 970 | About casualties: 264 | Last hour: 0

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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),