M 5.4 in Japan on 11 Mar 2017 19:57 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 1107573
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 40.32 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.5229 , 141.6361
Event Date: 11 Mar 2017 19:57 UTC
12 Mar 2017 04:57 Local
Exposed Population:
280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Mar 2017 20:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us100088fi 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: 802 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

Da, mama, sunt arsa!Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:39:00 +0100.

Deputatul PSD de Argeş Cătălin Rădulescu, cel care a declarat, pentru „Adevărul“, că vrea să pună tunurile cu apă pe protestatarii… Peste 500 de etnici maghiari au participat azi la un marş pe străzile municipiului Cluj-Napoca, în cadrul u
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Tsunami in R. Moldova: ministru RETINUT de procurorii anticoruptieWed, 15 Mar 2017 17:40:00 +0100.

Postat la: 15.03.2017 - 17:59 | Scris de: Ziua News. 0 Tsunami în Republica Moldova: ministrul Agriculturii și Industriei Alimentare de la Chişinău, Eduard Grama, a fost REŢINUT de procurorii Centrului Naţional Anticorupţie (CNA). Ministru
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Venezuela participará en ejercicio simulacro de tsunami Caribe Wave 20 ... Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:45:00 +0100.

Por sexta ocasión, Venezuela participará en el ejercicio de simulacro de tsunami Caribe Wave, que se realizará el próximo 21 de marzo de 2017 en los estados costeros del país, con el propósito de evaluar los planes de respuesta ante un tsun
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South China Sea tsunami alert center expected to go on trial in 2017Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:18:00 +0100.

BEIJING， March 15 (Xinhua) -- China's tsunami warning center in the South China Sea is expected to start trial operations this year， according a UNESCO body. The work team of the South China Sea region with the Intergovernmental Coordinatio
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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),