M 5.1 in Japan on 26 Feb 2017 15:03 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 1106524
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 45.68 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.1232 , 141.2382
Event Date: 26 Feb 2017 15:03 UTC
27 Feb 2017 00:03 Local
Exposed Population:
1140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2017 15:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us20008mit Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 463 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Japón trabaja para que la situación de Fukushima 'no afecte' a Tokio 2 ... Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:36:00 +0100.

El Gobierno nipón y la operadora de la central de Fukushima afirmaron este jueves que trabajan en el desmantelamiento de la planta con el objetivo de que las consecuencias del accidente nuclear "no afecten" al turismo de cara a Tokio 2020.
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Philippines: Philippines Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 2 | March 2017Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:36:00 +0100.

HIGHLIGHTS A 6.7-magnitude earthquake in Surigao displaces thousands of families and causes destruction to homes, schools and infrastructure. Over 29,000 people are still displaced in Mindanao due to flooding. Heavy rains combined with rive
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Pakistan: Institutionalizing Gender in Emergencies: Case study of Paki ... Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:36:00 +0100.

1 THE PROJECT IN CONTEXT. Pakistan faces frequent natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods, cyclones, drought and tsunami, and there is ongoing conflict and military operations in the northwest of the country (in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
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Fukushima cleanup chief urges better use of probe robotThu, 02 Mar 2017 14:09:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed in developing robots to locate and assess the condition of melted fuel rods. A robot sent inside the Unit 2 contai
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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),