M 5.8 in Japan on 20 Jul 2017 00:11 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 1117284
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 34.57 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.4244 , 141.593
Event Date: 20 Jul 2017 00:11 UTC
20 Jul 2017 09:11 Local
Exposed Population: 410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jul 2017 00:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us20009yb7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2076 | About casualties: 192 | Last hour: 0

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ضرب زلزال عنيف بقوة 7,7 درجات صباح الثلاثاء في بحر بيرينغ قبالة السواحل الشرقية لروسيا، كما اعلن المعهد الاميركي لرصد الزلازل، بينما أصدر مركز الانذار المبكر من التسونامي في المحيط الهادئ تحذيرا من خطر حصول امواج مد عال في بعض انحاء المحيط.
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Swimming robot probes Fukushima reactor to find melted fuelMon, 24 Jul 2017 00:29:00 +0200.

TOKYO (AP) — An underwater robot entered a badly damaged reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant Wednesday, capturing images of the harsh impact of its meltdown, including key structures that were torn and knocked out of place.
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North Korea Missile Threat 'Unlikely,' But Hawaii PreparesSun, 23 Jul 2017 23:37:00 +0200.

HONOLULU - Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike from North Korea. The state's Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced a public education campaign about what to do. Hawaii
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Объяснено исчезновение «британской Атлантиды»Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:30:00 +0200.

Специалисты смоделировали воздействие оползней Стурегга на формирование цунами в Северном море, которое могло бы привести к затоплению Доггерленда. Расчеты показали, что высота образовавшихся волн составила девять метров, цунами могло затоп
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),