M 4.7 in Japan on 14 Mar 2017 03:56 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 1107714
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 92.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.7059 , 142.701
Event Date: 14 Mar 2017 03:56 UTC
14 Mar 2017 12:56 Local
Exposed Population:
470000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2017 05:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us100088sq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 620 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

The Caribbean Is Mobilizing 300,000 People for an Epic Tsunami DrillSat, 18 Mar 2017 03:37:00 +0100.

A report by IF YOU HAPPEN to be sunbathing on a quiet Caribbean beach next week, don’t be alarmed if a helicopter flies overhead warning everyone to evacuate to higher ground. It’s just a drill. A tsunami drill, actually, called Caribe Wave
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علاقات الدوحة وطوكيو استراتيجيةSat, 18 Mar 2017 02:29:00 +0100.

كثيراً ما تتطابق توجهات القيادة الفلسطينية، مع اليابان، في التعامل مع القضايا والأزمات الخارجية، فهناك عوامل مشتركة تبرز في ما يُعرف بـ«الفعل الوقائي» الذي تمارسه فلسطين واليابان، ويتمثل باستشراف المستقبل، واستشعار الأزمة، والتحرّك سريعاً ل
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Roca Rey, el ciclón que todo lo arrollaSat, 18 Mar 2017 01:34:00 +0100.

Fandi corta una oreja por una templada faena y Manzanares se queda sin opciones en una tarde donde los toros de Cuvillo no estuvieron a la altura; El diestro peruano vuelve a Valencia con la fuerza de un tsunami y abre la puerta grande. Ta
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â Govt liable for Fukushima disasterâSat, 18 Mar 2017 01:29:00 +0100.

TOKYO: A Japanese court on Friday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and ordered it and the plant operator to pay damages, officials and news reports said. A massive tsu
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),