M 4.5 in Japan on 24 May 2017 14:35 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 1113717
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 124.81 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.4207 , 131.0616
Event Date: 24 May 2017 14:35 UTC
24 May 2017 23:35 Local
Exposed Population:
3660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 May 2017 06:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008uuv 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 281 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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[VIDEO] Reportajes T13: El terremoto de ValdiviaSun, 28 May 2017 09:31:00 +0200.

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Recreating a major earthquake to help B.C. plan for the big oneSun, 28 May 2017 07:17:00 +0200.

. Air Date: May 25, 2017 11:05 AM PT. Recreating a major earthquake to help B.C. plan for the big one 2:33. Johanna Wagstaffe goes to UBC where they recreate the Japan earthquake to study impact. Severe weather warnings or watches in eff
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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),