M 4.6 in Japan on 15 May 2017 07:03 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 1113027
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2733 , 130.0601
Event Date: 15 May 2017 07:03 UTC
15 May 2017 16:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2017 08:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008si6 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: 345 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Hopes rise for safe birth by Japan's probably pregnant pandaFri, 19 May 2017 06:50:00 +0200.

TOKYO A female panda at a Tokyo zoo appears to be pregnant, zoo officials said on Friday, raising hopes for a safe birth five years after her first cub died within days of being born. Ueno Zoo's 11-year-old panda, Shin Shin, has shown signs
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Makran subduction zoneFri, 19 May 2017 06:48:00 +0200.

It may seem far-fetched and even unnecessarily alarmist to a majority of people living along the coast but there is a possibility of a tsunami hitting the Makran coast. According to a study published in the Geophysical Journal International
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Hopes rise for safe birth by Japan's probably pregnant pandaFri, 19 May 2017 06:47:00 +0200.

TOKYO: A female panda at a Tokyo zoo appears to be pregnant, zoo officials said on Friday, raising hopes for a safe birth five years after her first cub died within days of being born. Ueno Zoo's 11-year-old panda, Shin Shin, has shown sign
...(more)
O horror de BrasíliaFri, 19 May 2017 06:01:00 +0200.

Jornal de WM O horror de Brasília. Diante do tsunami de Brasília, noticiado com mínimos detalhes na avalanche da tevê, o colombiano Gabriel Garcia Márquez não pegaria o juvenil do realismo fantástico brasileiro onde acontecem histórias do n
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),