M 4.6 in Japan on 25 Feb 2017 04:52 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 1106396
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 32.13 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.7529 , 142.2258
Event Date: 25 Feb 2017 04:52 UTC
25 Feb 2017 13:52 Local
Exposed Population:
300000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2017 05:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mcu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 440 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Globetrotting couple sketch their travelsWed, 01 Mar 2017 02:15:00 +0100.

Chen Zuchang has a different way of documenting his travels - instead of taking pictures, he sketches the places he visits. The 77-year-old retired engineer from Chongqing in Southwest China has drawn more than 100 pictures of the cities an
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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),