M 5.3 in Japan on 03 Mar 2017 08:27 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 1106919
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 82.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.1235 , 145.5694
Event Date: 03 Mar 2017 08:27 UTC
03 Mar 2017 17:27 Local
Exposed Population:
About 94000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Mar 2017 08:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Russia= 4.6; Japan= 1.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us100086pe 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: 499 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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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),