M 4.6 in Japan on 08 Apr 2017 14:17 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 1109772
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 29.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.6725 , 140.3073
Event Date: 08 Apr 2017 14:17 UTC
08 Apr 2017 23:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Apr 2017 14:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008fuk 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 435 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Zehn Millionen Franken Spenden: Sammeltag für AfrikaWed, 12 Apr 2017 10:37:00 +0200.

Jeder gespendete Franken nutzt nichts ausser den sehr attraktiven Lohnbezüger der "Organisationen"! Es bringt weder mittel noch langfristig etwas, die Leute in Afrika als Lanzeit-Sozialbezüger zu konditionieren! In vielen Gegenden wollen si
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ASIC calls for standardised insurance definitionsWed, 12 Apr 2017 10:37:00 +0200.

Insurance companies should consider standardising their policy definitions to make it easier for people to compare policies against one another, the corporate regulator said on Wednesday. Representatives from the Australian Securities and I
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ASIC calls for standardised insurance definitionsWed, 12 Apr 2017 10:29:00 +0200.

Insurance companies should consider standardising their policy definitions to make it easier for people to compare policies against one another, the corporate regulator said on Wednesday. Representatives from the Australian Securities and I
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ASIC calls for standardised insurance definitionsWed, 12 Apr 2017 10:29:00 +0200.

Insurance companies should consider standardising their policy definitions to make it easier for people to compare policies against one another, the corporate regulator said on Wednesday. Representatives from the Australian Securities and I
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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),