M 4.6 in Japan on 27 May 2017 11:59 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 1113913
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 1.64 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.8275 , 138.3968
Event Date: 27 May 2017 11:59 UTC
27 May 2017 20:59 Local
Exposed Population:
3890000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2017 12:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008vsc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 485 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Les législatives, ce sont certes 577 élections locales sur toute la France, avec chacune sa spécificité et son contexte. Mais, tout de même, les sondages nationaux annoncent une forte vague en faveur du mouvement d’Emmanuel Macron. Entre 29
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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),