M 4.5 in Japan on 01 Apr 2017 20:43 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 1109180
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 16.18 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.3652 , 143.4715
Event Date: 01 Apr 2017 20:43 UTC
02 Apr 2017 06:43 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Apr 2017 21:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008duk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 421 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Usuwanie szkód w Fukushimie trzykrotnie droższeWed, 05 Apr 2017 19:32:00 +0200.

Najnowsze szacunki kosztów usuwania zniszczeń w elektrowni atomowej w Fukushimie po trzęsieniu ziemi z 2011 roku mają trzykrotnie przekroczyć poziom szacowany przez rząd Japonii - informuje agencja Kyodo. Nowa kwota określana jest na ok. 62
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Terremoto en Islas Salomón provoca alerta de tsunamiWed, 05 Apr 2017 19:31:00 +0200.

Un fuerte sismo de magnitud 7,7 se registró este viernes frente a las Islas Salomón, con riesgo de tsunami que podría afectar otras islas del Pacífico en las próximas horas, anunció el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). El epicent
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Ex-farm officials landed jobs in firms suspected of bid rigging in 201 ... Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:56:00 +0200.

Former farm ministry officials were found to have landed jobs in firms suspected of involvement in a series of bid-rigging cases connected to government soil cleaning projects in the disaster-hit Tohoku region, sources familiar with the mat
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Sprzątanie w Fukushimie trzykrotnie droższeWed, 05 Apr 2017 15:03:00 +0200.

Japońska agencja cytuje wyniki badań opublikowane przed kilkoma dnami przez prywatny think tank Japan Center for Economic Research. Wynika z nich, że koszt usuwania zniszczeń, spowodowanych przez trzęsienie ziemi z 11 marca 2011 roku u wsch
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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),