M 4.6 in Japan on 25 May 2017 17:33 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 1113798
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 66.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.0229 , 142.6598
Event Date: 25 May 2017 17:33 UTC
26 May 2017 02:33 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 May 2017 20:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008vcz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 340 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Sulawesi island in Indonesia, no threat ... Mon, 29 May 2017 17:25:00 +0200.

. The Indonesian city of Palu was on Monday struck by an earthquake of magnitude 6.9, according to the USGS. Representative picture. world An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck an area 130 kilometres southeast of the Ind
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زلزال يضرب إندونيسياMon, 29 May 2017 17:25:00 +0200.

أعلنت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأميركية الاثنين إن زلزالا تبلغ شدته المبدئية 6.9 درجة وقع في منطقة تبعد 130 كلم إلى الجنوب الشرقي من مدينة بالو الإندونيسية على جزيرة سولاويسي. واشارت الوكالة الإندونيسية للأرصاد الجوية وعلوم المناخ والجيوفيزيا
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6.9 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia islandMon, 29 May 2017 17:24:00 +0200.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck an area 130 kilometres southeast of the Indonesian city of Palu on the island of Sulawesi, the US Geological Survey reported on Monday. The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatol
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Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Sulawesi island in Indonesia - USGSMon, 29 May 2017 17:23:00 +0200.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck an area 130 kilometres southeast of the Indonesian city of Palu on the island of Sulawesi, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday. The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climat
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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),