M 4.6 in Japan on 13 Feb 2017 19:18 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 1105514
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 64.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.9587 , 142.3516
Event Date: 13 Feb 2017 19:18 UTC
14 Feb 2017 04:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 85000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2017 23:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008jjr 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: 414 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Damage to Japan reactor worse than expected: TEPCOFri, 17 Feb 2017 17:49:00 +0100.

Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), said the remote-control
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Fukushima reactor cleanup worse than expected as the robot sends back ... Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:48:00 +0100.

TOKYO — Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlle
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Robot probes show Japan reactor cleanup worse than expectedFri, 17 Feb 2017 17:39:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) - Robot probes sent to one of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant's ongoing cleanup. The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled "
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Lol, these are some of the best Dineo memesFri, 17 Feb 2017 16:11:00 +0100.

Jokes about Dineo being named Bonang, bricks flying everywhere, and ex- Generations actor Kenneth Mashaba being reminded to come and fetch Dineo – the memes have been hilarious! We’ve rounded up the best ones below. This is the only man tha
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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),