M 5.4 in Japan on 14 Oct 2014 22:52 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 1041451
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 53.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.23 , 127.37
Event Date: 14 Oct 2014 22:52 UTC
15 Oct 2014 07:52 Local
Exposed Population:
1235061 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2014 23:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 450 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

Facebook creó “Safety Check” para anunciar desastres naturalesThu, 16 Oct 2014 19:09:00 +0200.

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Facebook lanza una herramienta que permite a sus usuarios notificar a amigos y familiares que se encuentran bien durante o después de un desastre natural. La herramienta, llamada “Safety Check”, estará disponible para los
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18:04 - EST Facebook: le vittime delle catastrofi stiano serene, potra ... Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:54:00 +0200.

D'ora in poi, il miliardo di utenti di Facebook potrà stare più tranquillo: con il servizio “I'm safe” si potrà comunicare a famigliari ed amici che si è al sicuro, in caso di calamità naturali, tragedie belliche, incidenti stradali, ferrov
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Facebook lança aplicação para situações de emergênciaThu, 16 Oct 2014 18:29:00 +0200.

A rede social Facebook lançou uma ferramenta de "verificação de segurança" para permitir aos utilizadores alertar a família e amigos da sua situação em emergências, um sistema desenvolvido após o terramoto e tsunami no Japão, em 2011. "Que
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I'm OK, mom! Facebook launches new 'safety check'Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:24:00 +0200.

Facebook's new 'safety check' tool will allows users to notify friends and family that they are safe.

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),