M 4.8 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 18 Jun 2017 11:18 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 1115208
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 31.43 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.543 , 142.7808
Event Date: 18 Jun 2017 11:18 UTC
18 Jun 2017 21:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jun 2017 11:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009nf9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 665 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Chispitas de lenguajeThu, 22 Jun 2017 10:14:00 +0200.

¿Español o castellano? La polémica no se ha zanjado. Aún persiste la discusión si lo que hablamos es español o es castellano. Es decir, que el nombre del idioma, aún levanta las más airadas discusiones. Cada postura tiene argumentos válidos
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Ce dezastru natural te reprezintă, în funcţie de zodia taThu, 22 Jun 2017 09:38:00 +0200.

Rac Racul este ca un tsunami, brusc şi copleşitor. Acest nativ poate fi depăşit de momente de emoţie puternică şi izbucenşte cu puterea unui tsunami. El încearcă să-şi păstreze echilibrul, dar când îi sunt întrecute limitele, poate deveni f
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Simulacro moviliza a milesThu, 22 Jun 2017 09:28:00 +0200.

Instituciones del estado y empresas privadas hicieron el ejercicio. Un terremoto de magnitud 7,3 en la escala de Richter, una alerta de tsunami, una erupción volcánica en el Pacífico y la entrada de un huracán de categoría dos en el Caribe,
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Qld cops influenced Facebook safety checkThu, 22 Jun 2017 09:27:00 +0200.

The Queensland Police Service has been credited as an early influencer of Facebook's safety check and disaster map features that now help communities connect in times of crisis. Users have increasingly turned to the social media giant duri
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),