M 5.7 in Japan on 28 Feb 2017 07:49 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 1106638
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 38.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.5672 , 141.2999
Event Date: 28 Feb 2017 07:49 UTC
28 Feb 2017 16:49 Local
Exposed Population: 2580000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2017 08:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us20008mw4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 522 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Weet u of emoji meervoud of enkelvoud is? Emoji-expert Jeremy Burge geeft verduidelijking. ‘Het woord emoji komt, zoals de emoji zelf, uit Japan, en heeft geen aparte meervoudsvorm', zegt de 32-jarige Australiër in onze krant. 'Net zo min
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Registado sismo de magnitude 5,9 ao largo das Ilhas Salomão sem alerta ... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:15:00 +0100.

Um sismo de magnitude 5,9 na escala de Richter foi registado hoje ao largo das Ilhas Salomão, no Pacífico Sul, sem que tenha sido emitido alerta de tsunami. O terramoto, que teve o epicentro no leito marinho a 53 quilómetros de profundidade
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Registado sismo de magnitude 5,9 ao largo das Ilhas Salomão sem alerta ... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:09:00 +0100.

Um sismo de magnitude 5,9 na escala de Richter foi registado hoje ao largo das Ilhas Salomão, no Pacífico Sul, sem que tenha sido emitido alerta de tsunami. O terramoto, que teve o epicentro no leito marinho a 53 quilómetros de profundidade
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I rosoni del sisma in un merletto, così Arnaldo Caprai ‘ricama’ la sto ... Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:02:00 +0100.

Trevi, 4 marzo 2017- «Da sempre siamo vicini e attenti alla cultura, Norcia è nei nostri cuori e dopo la tragedia del terremoto abbiamo subito pensato di intervenire, partendo dalla nostra collezione di merletti , la più importante al mondo
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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.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),