M 4.6 in Japan on 21 Jul 2017 07:07 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 1117490
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 71.86 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.7919 , 140.1438
Event Date: 21 Jul 2017 07:07 UTC
21 Jul 2017 16:07 Local
Exposed Population:
38360000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jul 2017 07:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us20009yur Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),