M 4.6 in Japan on 02 Jan 2017 16:10 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 1102355
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 38.8986 , 142.8158
Event Date: 02 Jan 2017 16:10 UTC
03 Jan 2017 02:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2017 19:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007p9y Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),