M 4.9 in Japan on 15 Oct 2017 13:35 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 1123914
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.1699 , 129.806
Event Date: 15 Oct 2017 13:35 UTC
15 Oct 2017 22:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2017 14:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000asi3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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.
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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),