M 4.5 in Japan on 17 Mar 2017 13:00 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 1108059
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 56.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.9528 , 140.4554
Event Date: 17 Mar 2017 13:00 UTC
17 Mar 2017 22:00 Local
Exposed Population:
23850000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Mar 2017 05:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008sp2 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: 466 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

Бурятский учёный: «Волна высотой в десятки метров смоет всё, включая У ... Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:44:00 +0100.

Бурятский эколог Сергей Шапхаев рассказал о возможных катастрофических последствиях строительства ГЭС на Селенге, вплоть до цунами Сегодня на публичных слушаниях по строительству монгольских ГЭС на Селенге были озвучены возможные катастрофи
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Fukushima: Aufräumarbeiten nach japanischer Atomkatastrophe stockenTue, 21 Mar 2017 11:21:00 +0100.

In Fukushima kommt der Energiekonzern Tepco mit der Dekontamination nur schleppend voran – sechs Jahre nach dem GAU. Gut sechs Jahre nach der Atomkatastrophe in Japan tut sich am Kernkraftwerk Fukushima Daiichi, das nach Erdbeben mit anschl
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El jabalí radiactivo reina en FukushimaTue, 21 Mar 2017 09:35:00 +0100.

Donde antes del 11 de marzo de 2011 circulaban los coches y los hombres caminaban o paseaban a sus mascotas, ahora corretean los jabalíes. Así es ahora Fukushima y su área de exclusión, un territorio de 19 kilómetros a la redonda donde quie
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Territory to test tsunami sirens this morningTue, 21 Mar 2017 08:18:00 +0100.

This is Tsunami Preparedness Week, and the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency will test the territory’s tsunami warning system today at 10:15 a.m. “Tsunamis are not like tropical storms or hurricanes where the territory is warned
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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),