M 4.7 in Japan on 20 Aug 2017 04:47 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 1119656
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.2595 , 143.7867
Event Date: 20 Aug 2017 04:47 UTC
20 Aug 2017 14:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2017 05:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9v4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 349 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Solomon Islands: Ensuring a robust and reliable tsunami warning and mi ... Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:55:00 +0200.

The main purpose of the Working Group is to improve tsunami warning and mitigation services and information sharing for the PICT’s. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)- Pacific Tsunami Warning Systems (PTWS) Working Group o
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Sri Lanka: Committed to support vulnerable Sri Lankan population for o ... Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:55:00 +0200.

After the change of government in 2015, which has paved the way for a more conducive environment for rule of law and human rights, ACTED worked with media, lawyers and civil society organisations (CSOs) to enhance effective governance and r
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La sirena del Sistema de Alerta Temprana no se escuchó durante simulac ... Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:32:00 +0200.

El simulacro institucional para medir los tiempos de respuesta frente a un terremoto que genere un tsunami se realizó a las 11h00 de hoy en Crucita, Portoviejo. Cabe destacar que la sirena del Sistema de Alerta Temprana no se escuchó en el
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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.
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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),