M 4.6 in Japan on 13 Jan 2017 12:28 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 1103152
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 26.5837 , 127.8165
Event Date: 13 Jan 2017 12:28 UTC
13 Jan 2017 21:28 Local
Exposed Population:
1270000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2017 14:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007t3b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 439 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Migliaia di evacuati di Fukushima rischiano di perdere sussidiTue, 17 Jan 2017 12:06:00 +0100.

Roma, 17 gen. (askanews) - Migliaia di evacuati "volontari" dell'area interessata dall'incidente nucleare di Fukushima potrebbero perdere i sussidi pubblici per la casa, se non torneranno nelle loro aree di residenza. L'hanno denunciato ogg
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I terremoti degli ultimi 20 anni - se ne discuterà a Camerino durante ... Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:40:00 +0100.

I terremoti degli ultimi 20 anni: se ne discuterà a Camerino durante il Convegno Internazionale (Di martedì 17 gennaio 2017) Le crisi sismiche dell’Appennino centrale degli ultimi 20 anni . Il terremoto di Umbria e Marche del 1997, quello d
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I terremoti degli ultimi 20 anni: se ne discuterà a Camerino durante i ... Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:44:00 +0100.

(Di martedì 17 gennaio 2017) Le crisi sismiche dell’Appennino centrale degli ultimi 20 anni . Il terremoto di Umbria e Marche del 1997, quello dell’Aquila del 2009 e l’ultimo del 2016, che ha interessato un’ampia zona che si estende da Amat
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JAPAN MEMORIAL - Japan remembers more than 6,400 victims of Kobe earth ... Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:41:00 +0100.

Japan on Tuesday commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the devastating earthquake that left 6,434 people dead in the city of Kobe and several locations in the center of the country in 1995. Relatives of the deceased and survivors of the eart
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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),