M 4.8 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 27 Jul 2015 16:21 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 1061570
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.0985 , 143.5261
Event Date: 27 Jul 2015 16:21 UTC
28 Jul 2015 02:21 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2015 20:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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: 505 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Alisa TangFri, 31 Jul 2015 16:13:00 +0200.

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Japón: 3 directivos de eléctrica acusados por crisis nuclearFri, 31 Jul 2015 16:06:00 +0200.

Tres ex directivos de una empresa de electricidad deberán responder ante una corte criminal por su presunta negligencia en el desastre nuclear de Fukushima. Un documento difundido el viernes revela que la comisión judicial resolvió present
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Japón: 3 directivos de un empresa eléctrica acusados por el desastre n ... Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:06:00 +0200.

Tres ex directivos de una empresa de electricidad deberán responder ante una corte criminal por su presunta negligencia en el desastre nuclear de Fukushima. Un documento difundido el viernes revela que la comisión judicial resolvió presenta
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Japón imputa por primera vez a directivos de Fukushima por la crisis a ... Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:55:00 +0200.

Un comité judicial de Tokio aprobó hoy imputar a tres ex ejecutivos de la operadora de la central de Fukushima por negligencia a la hora de prevenir o reducir el impacto del desastre atómico de 2011, lo que supondrá el primer proceso penal
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),