M 4.6 in India on 23 Sep 2017 00:14 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 1122111
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.2131 , 74.5944
Event Date: 23 Sep 2017 00:14 UTC
23 Sep 2017 05:44 Local
Exposed Population:
7810000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2017 03:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.7 (Pakistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Pakistan= 5.7; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000atf6 Scaled population (vector) 7.22  
  C1 earthquake 2.1  
  C2 earthquake -0.9  
  Country Vulnerability 0.87  
  INFORM_normalised 1.07  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck off northeastern Japan on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no risk of tsunami. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake struck at 5:
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6.0 magnitude quake strikes off coast of Japan, no tsunami riskWed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0200.

TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck off northeastern Japan on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no risk of tsunami. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake struck at 5:
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Forte scossa di terremoto in GiapponeTue, 26 Sep 2017 23:58:00 +0200.

Ancora paura. Un terremoto di magnitudo 6 ha colpito questa sera il Giappone settentrionale. Non ci sono al momento notizie di vittime o danni e non è stato diramato l’allerta tsunami. La zona dell’epicentro, situata nella prefettura di Iwa
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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), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),