M 4.5 in Japan on 09 Jul 2017 17:02 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 1116586
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 57.31 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.232 , 131.0865
Event Date: 09 Jul 2017 17:02 UTC
10 Jul 2017 02:02 Local
Exposed Population:
2090000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jul 2017 17:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100098e8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 617 | About casualties: 38 | Last hour: 0

Disaster planning: It's good to talkThu, 13 Jul 2017 18:30:00 +0200.

A series of major disasters—from this summer’s floods in Pakistan and the brushfires in Russia, to recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 tsunami—have left many people asking if the intensity and frequency of
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Magnitude 6.7 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGSThu, 13 Jul 2017 18:29:00 +0200.

SINGAPORE - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the town of Rabaul in the south Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties i
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زلزال بقوة 6.7 درجة يضرب سواحل بابوا غينيا الجديدةThu, 13 Jul 2017 18:01:00 +0200.

بورت مورسبي- سبأ: ضرب زلزال بلغت قوته 7ر6 درجة على مقياس ريختر قبالة سواحل بابوا غينيا الجديدة جنوب غرب المحيط الهادي. وقالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية في بيان لها اليوم الخميس، إن الزلزال كان على عمق 33 كيلومترا وعلى بعد حوالي 128 كيلو
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Earthquake off North Korea 'no way' caused by nuke testThu, 13 Jul 2017 17:43:00 +0200.

By Alex Jensen. SEOUL. An unusually strong tremor struck deep below the seabed east of North Korea early Thursday, with South Korean and Japanese earthquake observers recording its magnitude at 6.3. While the U.S. Geological Survey placed i
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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),