M 5.6 in Japan on 27 Mar 2017 22:31 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 1108813
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.0328 , 138.5214
Event Date: 27 Mar 2017 22:31 UTC
28 Mar 2017 07:31 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Mar 2017 22:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008v4y Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 373 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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KOMISI Penyiaran Indonesia (KPI) menggelar Rapat Koordinasi (Rakornas) 2017 di Kota Bengkulu. Rakornas ini membahas tsunami informasi dan revisi Undang-Undang Nomor 32 Tahun 2000 tentang Penyiaran. Rakornas KPI berlangsung selama tiga hari
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Una unidad móvil atenderá las emergencias de las zonas incomunicadas e ... Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:59:00 +0200.

La embajada de Japón equipará una unidad móvil de la (CRE) para atender las emergencias Cruz Roja Ecuatoriana de las zonas del país que estén incomunicadas por desastres naturales. Esta acción se realizará como parte del convenio ‘Asistenci
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),