M 4.7 in Japan on 10 Aug 2018 21:11 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 1153283
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 14.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.2265 , 141.0636
Event Date: 10 Aug 2018 21:11 UTC
11 Aug 2018 06:11 Local
Exposed Population:
2550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2018 22:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g6l9 Scaled population (vector) 6.24  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 210 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Haiti: First-class surgery for all in Tabarre hospitalTue, 14 Aug 2018 01:09:00 +0200.

Since 2012, 60,000 Haitians from all walks of life have benefited from free, first-class surgical trauma care through MSF’s Nap Kenbé hospital in the Tabarre neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Opened in response to the earthquake in 2010 and
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As wildfires wreak havoc in California and leave 90 dead in Greece, Robert Matthews looks at why 'putting out the fire with gasoline' is often the only option Firefighters battle the Ferguson Fire, the largest fire in the Sierra National F
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),