M 5 in Japan on 26 Jan 2017 08:06 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 1104084
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 37.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.2406 , 142.4549
Event Date: 26 Jan 2017 08:06 UTC
26 Jan 2017 17:06 Local
Exposed Population:
140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2017 08:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007vh4 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: 404 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Tsunami de ayuda para reconstruir el pueblo arrasado por el fuego en C ... Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:36:00 +0100.

SANTA OLGA, Chile.- Es tanta la ayuda que llegó desde todos los puntos de Chile a Santa Olga que las fuerzas militares y las autoridades políticas tuvieron que organizar los vehículos y redistribuirlos hacia otros lugares en los alrededores
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Terremoto oggi Toscana, 29 Gennaio 2017: diverse scosse fino a M 2.7 i ... Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:33:00 +0100.

: Va avanti la fase di intensa attività sismica nel centro Italia. Mentre prosegue lo sciame nelle aree maggiormente coinvolte dalle scosse di terremoto degli ultimi 5 mesi, nella giornata di oggi l’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcano
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Solo 13% de habitantes de Fukushima volvieron a sus hogaresMon, 30 Jan 2017 03:40:00 +0100.

Los datos, que corresponden a las localidades de Tamura, Minamisoma, Kawauchi, Katsurao y Naraha, fueron facilitados por las autoridades locales a la agencia Kyodo. Las órdenes de evacuación, activadas después de que el terremoto y tsunami
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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),