M 4.6 in Bonin Islands, Japan Region on 18 Aug 2017 10:53 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 1119553
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.0204 , 143.8693
Event Date: 18 Aug 2017 10:53 UTC
18 Aug 2017 20:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2017 13:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9bx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 277 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Vent'anni dopo il terremoto l'altopiano riabbraccia il suo eroeTue, 22 Aug 2017 10:37:00 +0200.

di Maurizio Verdenelli. (foto di Luciano Carletti. L’altopiano ha riabbracciato a distanza di vent’anni (quasi) esatti, il suo eroe. “All’alba del 26 settembre 1997, dopo la prima scossa (magnitudo 5.6, ore 2.33, epicentro Cesi ndr) e prima
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Vent’anni dopo il terremoto l’altopiano riabbraccia il suo eroeTue, 22 Aug 2017 10:32:00 +0200.

di Maurizio Verdenelli. (foto di Luciano Carletti. L’altopiano ha riabbracciato a distanza di vent’anni (quasi) esatti, il suo eroe. “All’alba del 26 settembre 1997, dopo la prima scossa (magnitudo 5.6, ore 2.33, epicentro Cesi ndr) e prima
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Fukushima reactor 'ice wall' nearly finishedTue, 22 Aug 2017 10:28:00 +0200.

Fukushima's operator on Tuesday started freezing the last section of a $320 million ice wall designed to combat widespread water contamination at the site of the worst nuclear accident in a generation. Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) began pum
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Fukushima: le mur de glace souterrain de 1,5 km bientôt finiTue, 22 Aug 2017 10:14:00 +0200.

L'opération consiste à couler un réfrigérant sur une profondeur de 30 mètres, dans des tuyaux placés à la verticale autour de quatre des six réacteurs du site, les plus endommagés de la centrale mise en péril le 11 mars 2011 par un gigantes
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),