M 4.7 in Japan on 24 Jan 2017 13:12 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 1103943
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3995 , 143.1132
Event Date: 24 Jan 2017 13:12 UTC
24 Jan 2017 23:12 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2017 14:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007v5j 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: 532 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

El Gobierno en cenizasSat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0100.

El Líbero Santiago de Chile, 28 de enero de 2017 Por Patricio Navia. )-. “Resta por verse si los presidenciables del centroderechista Chile Vamos resultarán beneficiados por la crisis en que está sumido el Gobierno producto de los numerosos
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More Vietnamese workers pack for Japan despite exploitation concernsSat, 28 Jan 2017 09:11:00 +0100.

Slightly over a million foreigners from countries such as China and Vietnam were working in Japan as of last October, labor ministry data showed on Friday. That was up nearly 20 percent from the previous year and a new record for the fourth
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هذا ما يهدد سكان الارض في شباط المقبلSat, 28 Jan 2017 08:18:00 +0100.

حذر موظفو وكالة “ناسا” من اصطدام كويكب ضخم بالأرض، وذلك في شهر شباط، حيث يمكن أن يسبب حدوث تسونامي ضخم “ميغا تسونامي”. وإلى الآن لم يتم تحديد مكان وقوعه، ولكن يمكن لسكان المملكة المتحدة أن يشاهدوه. وهذه أول مرة يمكن لكويكب ضخم أن يهدد سكان
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Foreign workforce in Japan tops 1mSat, 28 Jan 2017 07:17:00 +0100.

The number of foreign workers in Japan surpassed one million for the first time last year, as the labour-strapped country struggles to find enough Japanese workers. Slightly over a million foreigners from countries such as China and Vietnam
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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),