M 5.3 in Southeast Of Honshu, Japan on 27 Jul 2017 23:58 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 1118045
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.2785 , 142.9564
Event Date: 27 Jul 2017 23:58 UTC
28 Jul 2017 09:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2017 00:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a20r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 253 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

هل نتّعظ من دروس التاريخ؟Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:45:00 +0200.

صحيح أن الله غفور رحيم، وهو عفوّ يحب العفو عنهم إذا أساؤوا أو أذنبوا، ولكنهم إذا تمادوا في عصيانهم وعنادهم، فإن الله عزيز ذو انتقام، وإذا مكر العباد مع الله، فإن الله خير الماكرين.. وسأعطي مثالين على ذلك، أحدهما من التاريخ القديم والثاني من
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Thai tsunami warning system needs maintenanceMon, 31 Jul 2017 23:03:00 +0200.

BANGKOK • Up to 80 per cent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said yesterday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed
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Moderate Earthquake Hits Sumatra, IndonesiaMon, 31 Jul 2017 19:12:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred in Sumatra, Indonesia at 10pm today. The Malaysian Meteorological Department in a statement here said, the epicentre of the quake was 486 k
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Ottawa a moins tendance à égaler les montants des dons pour les désast ... Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:33:00 +0200.

Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a encouragé les Canadiens à faire des dons à la Croix-Rouge pour aider les Britanno-Colombiens aux prises avec des incendies de forêt, tout comme il l'avait fait pour les victimes des inondations au Québec
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),