M 4.9 in Japan on 18 Mar 2017 01:33 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 1108095
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 17.37 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.6002 , 143.881
Event Date: 18 Mar 2017 01:33 UTC
18 Mar 2017 11:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Mar 2017 00:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008sx9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 530 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

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Japón: El rechazo a los refugiados nucleares de FukushimaWed, 22 Mar 2017 01:03:00 +0100.

. Tiene radiaciones contagiosas". Esta fue la frase que oyó Satsuki Sekine, de 15 años, después de huir despavorida de la catástrofe nuclear de 2011 en "Mi casa fue destruida por el seísmo y arrastrada por el tsunami", cuenta a la AFP. "Pe
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NICARAGUA DISASTERS - Massive participation in Nicaragua's nationwide ... Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:57:00 +0100.

Emergency management chief Rogelio Flores said Tuesday that "thousands of people took part" in the first national multiple-threat drill of the year in Nicaragua. The evacuation and reaction of citizens faced with extreme natural phenomena t
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Quem mais sofre é quem tem menosWed, 22 Mar 2017 00:51:00 +0100.

Neste artigo de opinião abordarei um comparativo didático entre situação de desastres naturais que ocorram no Japão, Chile e no Haiti, além de abordar alguns exemplos relacionados ao estado de Mato Grosso, e a realidade Brasileira. Para com
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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),