M 5 in Japan on 03 Jun 2015 19:34 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 1056655
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 21.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.5128 , 143.9696
Event Date: 03 Jun 2015 19:34 UTC
04 Jun 2015 04:34 Local
Exposed Population:
914738 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jun 2015 20:01 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 545 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

Robots, aliados en desastres humanitariosSun, 07 Jun 2015 18:26:00 +0200.

Robots creados en seis países, entre ellos Estados Unidos, Japón y Corea del Sur, compiten para demostrar destrezas para ayudar a atender desastres como el accidente nuclear de Fukushima, en un concurso cuyo ganador se llevará dos millones
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South Korean Team Wins DARPA Robotics ChallengeSun, 07 Jun 2015 18:15:00 +0200.

Challenge was launched in response to the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan + READ ARTICLE. A South Korean team took home the top prize on Saturday at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in California. Team Kaist from Daejeon and its robot, D
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Naked Canadians blamed for Malaysian quakeSun, 07 Jun 2015 18:01:00 +0200.

Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu is seen among mists from the Timpohon gate check point a day after the earthquake in Kundasang, a town in the district of Ranau on June 6, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MOHD RASFAN) Five tourists who stripped naked on a sacred
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Malaysia quake death toll tops 15Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:27:00 +0200.

The victims were six Malaysians, one from the Philippines, China and Japan, and seven Singaporeans, including children who were on a school trekking trip, Reuters reported. Minister for Tourism, Culture and Environment Masidi Manjun told re
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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),