M 5 in Japan on 14 Oct 2017 23:34 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 1123873
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 147.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.9348 , 130.2712
Event Date: 14 Oct 2017 23:34 UTC
15 Oct 2017 08:34 Local
Exposed Population:
1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2017 23:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ascl Scaled population (vector) 5.58  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 535 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake study into 'megathrust' risk off Hawke's Bay and East CoastWed, 18 Oct 2017 22:36:00 +0200.

Scientists will start dropping 100 borrowed but especially-made seismometers into the ocean off the North Island coast next week to learn more about the earthquake and tsunami risks in the region. The eastern coast has been under increased
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He lost his home to the wildfire and poured his pain into a web comicWed, 18 Oct 2017 19:29:00 +0200.

By David Williams CNN (CNN) -- Brian Fies sat down with some Sharpies and some paper to process his pain the way he knows best. He began to draw. The result is "A Fire Story," an 18-page web comic that recounts the heart-wrenching devastati
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زلزال بقوة 6.1 ريختر يهز جزيرة تونجا الماليزيةWed, 18 Oct 2017 17:39:00 +0200.

هز زلزال قوي بلغت شدته 6.1 درجة على مقياس (ريختر) جزيرة تونجا التابعة لماليزيا اليوم الأربعاء. وقالت إدارة الأرصاد الجوية الماليزية في بيان نقلته وكالة أنباء (برناما) الماليزية، إن الزلزال يقع مركزه على بعد 891 كيلومترا جنوب شرق جزيرة لاوكا
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زلزال بقوة 6.1 ريختر يهز جزيرة تونجا الماليزيةWed, 18 Oct 2017 17:12:00 +0200.

هز زلزال قوى بلغت شدته 6.1 درجة على مقياس (ريختر) جزيرة تونجا التابعة لماليزيا اليوم الأربعاء. وقالت إدارة الأرصاد الجوية الماليزية -فى بيان نقلته وكالة أنباء (برناما) الماليزية- إن الزلزال يقع مركزه على بعد 891 كيلومترا جنوب شرق جزيرة لاوك
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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),