M 4.9 in Japan on 27 May 2017 13:50 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 1113918
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.9351 , 135.5134
Event Date: 27 May 2017 13:50 UTC
27 May 2017 22:50 Local
Exposed Population:
1410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2017 14:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10008vsr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 487 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

أي كارثة طبيعية الأكثر حصداً للأرواح؟Wed, 31 May 2017 12:47:00 +0200.

يتعرض الملايين من البشر في جميع أنحاء العالم للكوارث الطبيعية المدمرة، بما في ذلك #الزلازل، وأمواج #تسونامي، وثوران #البراكين، وفقاً لدراسة جديدة نشرتها صحيفة “ديلي ميل” البريطانية. وزادت المخاطر بشكل كبير في العقود القليلة الماضية. فعلى سب
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Adolescenza? Istruzioni per l’usoWed, 31 May 2017 12:42:00 +0200.

“L’età dello tsunami”: sabato 4 giugno alle 15 nella parrocchia di San Carlo Borromeo di Fontespina a Civitanova terzo incontro gratuito proposto dall’ A.Ge., associazione dei genitori: “L’età dello tsunami”. Si parlerà di adolescenza, bull
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Ученые выяснили удивительный факт о нашей планетеWed, 31 May 2017 11:52:00 +0200.

По словам ученых, если Земля прекратит движение, то все объекты по инерции полетят на восток с огромной скоростью. Специалисты отмечают, что скорость на экваторе будет очень высокой — более 1 600 км/ч, ближе к полюсам — более 1 300 км/ч. Та
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The Give and Take of Disaster Aid. Social and Moral Transformation in ... Wed, 31 May 2017 11:09:00 +0200.

Sammanfattning: The act of giving reflects the most basic principles of morality and has therefore constituted a classical anthropological field of inquiry. The importance of giving, receiving and reciprocating for the shaping and consolida
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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),