M 4.8 in Japan on 21 Jan 2017 18:11 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 1103756
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 41.1413 , 142.3412
Event Date: 21 Jan 2017 18:11 UTC
22 Jan 2017 03:11 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2017 21:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007un7 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1138 | About casualties: 22 | Last hour: 0

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"Non chiamateci eroi, siamo professionisti"Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:33:00 +0100.

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Rigopiano, Alessandro Riccetti trovato privo di vita | Lutto cittadino ... Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:33:00 +0100.

Aggiornamento alle 15 – Il sindaco di Terni, Leopoldo Di Girolamo, nella tarda mattinata di oggi si è recato a portare il suo cordoglio e quello dell’intera città ai familiari di Alessandro Riccetti, il giovane di 33 anni morto all’hotel Ri
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Fire tornado scorches Watheroo in Western AustraliaWed, 25 Jan 2017 15:27:00 +0100.

Terrifying moment a flaming TORNADO breaks out from a bushfire in the Australian Outback Footage has surfaced of a 'fire tornado' in the Outback of Western Australia; The column of fire was spinning at more than 150km/h for over a minute; O
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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),