M 4.5 in Japan on 22 May 2017 03:25 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 1113557
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10.85 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.4584 , 139.425
Event Date: 22 May 2017 03:25 UTC
22 May 2017 12:25 Local
Exposed Population:
2530000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2017 03:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008u36 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 307 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

¿Es Chile un país traumatizado?Fri, 26 May 2017 01:41:00 +0200.

Una de las formas más clásicas a través de las cuales se ha abordado el trauma tiene que ver con el diagnóstico clínico del llamado Trastorno por Estrés Postraumático (TEPT), que nace por primera vez como concepto en 1980. Si bien no existe
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Boxing Day Tsunami: Scientists drill deep in ocean to find out why Ind ... Thu, 25 May 2017 20:43:00 +0200.

Scientists have long been puzzled about why the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was so devastating, as it didn't unfold as traditional hazard models would have expected. New analyses of the sediments entering the subduction zone have allowe
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România, amenințată de dezastre naturale. Suntem printre țările cu cei ... Thu, 25 May 2017 19:28:00 +0200.

Miliarde de oameni sunt expuși la dezastre naturale. Comisia Europeană a realizat un amplu studiu privind expunerea populației din întreaga lume la dezastre naturale. Concluziile alarmante au fost publicate în raportul Atlas of the Human Pl
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زلزال يضرب شمال الفلبين دون خسائر ماديةThu, 25 May 2017 18:39:00 +0200.

مانيلا - (دب أ): ضرب زلزال قوته 5.5 درجة على مقياس ريختر المناطق الشمالية من الفلبين، اليوم الخميس، بما فيها العاصمة مانيلا، مما أثار حالة من الفزع بين السكان. وقال معهد الأرصاد والبراكين الفلبينى، الخميس، إن مركز الزلزال كان فى مدينة سان م
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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),