M 4.5 in Japan on 16 Jan 2017 14:21 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 1103363
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1823 , 142.253
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 14:21 UTC
16 Jan 2017 23:21 Local
Exposed Population:
420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 15:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007tit Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 473 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Donald Trump asume la Presidencia de los Estados UnidosFri, 20 Jan 2017 13:16:00 +0100.

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Hotel Rigopiano: notte senza novità, si abbassano le speranzeFri, 20 Jan 2017 13:01:00 +0100.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),