M 4.7 in Japan on 06 Jan 2017 09:04 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 1102645
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 29.1339 , 130.485
Event Date: 06 Jan 2017 09:04 UTC
06 Jan 2017 18:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2017 09:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007rmf Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 475 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Powerful undersea quake hits south Philippines, no damageTue, 10 Jan 2017 08:44:00 +0100.

Philippine seismologists say an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck under the Celebes Sea off the country's south but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Philippine Institut
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Un fuerte terremoto sacude Filipinas e IndonesiaTue, 10 Jan 2017 08:43:00 +0100.

Movimiento sísmico Un fuerte terremoto sacude Filipinas e Indonesia El seísmo, de 7,2 grados, se registró a gran profundidad, por lo que no hay peligro de tsunami EP/Madrid 10.01.2017 | 08:24. Un terremoto de magnitud 7,2 grados en la esca
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Un fuerte terremoto sacude Filipinas e IndonesiaTue, 10 Jan 2017 08:43:00 +0100.

Movimiento sísmico Un fuerte terremoto sacude Filipinas e Indonesia El seísmo, de 7,2 grados, se registró a gran profundidad, por lo que no hay peligro de tsunami ep/madrid 10.01.2017 | 08:24. Un terremoto de magnitud 7,2 grados en la esca
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Un fuerte terremoto sacude Filipinas e IndonesiaTue, 10 Jan 2017 08:43:00 +0100.

Movimiento sísmico Un fuerte terremoto sacude Filipinas e Indonesia El seísmo, de 7,2 grados, se registró a gran profundidad, por lo que no hay peligro de tsunami ep/madrid 10.01.2017 | 08:24. Un terremoto de magnitud 7,2 grados en la esca
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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),