M 4.7 in Southeast Of Honshu, Japan on 19 Aug 2017 08:14 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 1119603
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.2338 , 142.2998
Event Date: 19 Aug 2017 08:14 UTC
19 Aug 2017 17:14 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2017 08:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9q8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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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En Portoviejo se hará simulacro de terremoto y tsunami este miércolesWed, 23 Aug 2017 06:19:00 +0200.

Bajo la coordinación del municipio de Portoviejo este miércoles 23 de agosto se desarrollarán simulacros en algunos lugares de confluencia de público de instituciones principalmente públicas, aunque también privadas. Las actividades, de acu
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23rd August 2017 - Harvest of sorrowWed, 23 Aug 2017 05:59:00 +0200.

Seven die in flash floods, many others displaced. From FRED ITUA. Last Thursday, another tragedy hit Abuja, the nation’s capital, following an early-morning downpour. In one of the elite estates located at Lokogoma District, a few metres fr
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Joint Typhoon Warning Center Improves Tsunami ReadinessWed, 23 Aug 2017 03:37:00 +0200.

Navy News Service. Story Number: NNS170822-04 Release Date: 8/22/2017 7:08:00 AM. From Joint Typhoon Warning Center Public Affairs. PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) released a new, publicly available tsunami dec
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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),