M 5.8 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 16 Aug 2018 18:21 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 1153925
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 11.53 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.3594 , 143.3573
Event Date: 16 Aug 2018 18:21 UTC
17 Aug 2018 04:21 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2018 16:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000gaqf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

17 Ogos 2018 -Gempa Bumi Kuat di Kepulauan Volcano, Jepun pada 17 Ogos ... Fri, 17 Aug 2018 04:10:00 +0200.

JMM/POCGN(O)/BK-23A Ruj. Kami: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.15(22) SIARAN MEDIA Gempa Bumi Kuat di Kepulauan Volcano, Jepun Gempa bumi kuat bermagnitud 6.2 pada skala Richter telah berlaku di Kepulauan Volcano, Jepun pada pukul 2:23 pagi, 17 Ogo
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Over 500 tourists rescued following Indonesian earthquakeTue, 31 Jul 2018 08:50:00 +0200.

At least 543 tourists have been rescued from a mountain in tourist destination of Lombok Island of central Indonesia after a strong quake cut off routes, a government official said on Tuesday. A 6.4-magnitude quake, with an epicenter not fa
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Over 500 tourists rescued following Indonesian earthquakeTue, 31 Jul 2018 08:26:00 +0200.

At least 543 tourists have been rescued from a mountain in tourist destination of Lombok Island of central Indonesia after a strong quake cut off routes, a government official said on Tuesday. A 6.4-magnitude quake, with an epicenter not fa
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Mount Fuji eruption fears prompt Japan to draw up disaster plansTue, 31 Jul 2018 08:00:00 +0200.

T he Japanese government is to set up a disaster management task force after a new report warned that an eruption of Mount Fuji could blanket Tokyo with more than 3 feet of volcanic ash, bringing the city to a standstill. Japan has suffered
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),