M 4.9 in Japan on 27 Feb 2017 16:18 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 1106602
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 45.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.2425 , 122.8771
Event Date: 27 Feb 2017 16:18 UTC
28 Feb 2017 01:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2017 17:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mpq 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: 494 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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‘Tsunami of sewage spills’ at Mexican border ‘deliberate,’ says Califo ... Fri, 03 Mar 2017 11:30:00 +0100.

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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),