M 4.6 in Japan on 23 Sep 2017 12:25 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 1122157
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.1689 , 142.1234
Event Date: 23 Sep 2017 12:25 UTC
23 Sep 2017 21:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2017 12:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000atjm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 453 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

In Puglia l’innalzamento del mare e l’impatto antropico si stanno mang ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:06:00 +0200.

L’Italia è stata colpita numerose volte da ondazioni eccezionali, mareggiate e tsunami; questi ultimi hanno lasciato memoria e danni gravissimi numerose volte, ad esempio nel 1908, a seguito del terremoto di Messina. START – Sistemi di rapi
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Tokyo Gov. Criticized for Disregard of 1923 Korean MassacreWed, 27 Sep 2017 11:58:00 +0200.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is facing criticism again over her indifferent attitude towards the tragic slaying of thousands of Koreans in Japan's Kanto region nearly a century ago. The Asahi Shimbun reported on Wednesday that the conservati
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زلزال بقوة 6 ريختر يضرب سواحل اليابانWed, 27 Sep 2017 11:41:00 +0200.

ضرب زلزال بلغت قوته 6 ريختر ، السواحل الشمالية الشرقية لليابان اليوم الأربعاء. وذكرت وكالة الأرصاد الجوية اليابانية في بيان، أن الزلزال وقع في المحيط الهادئ قبالة سواحل مدينتي إيواتي وآومورو، على عمق 30 كم تحت سطح البحر. من جانبها أعلنت ه
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RASTE NAPETOST ZBOG PRIJETNJI SJ. KOREJE, STANOVNIŠTVO HAVAJA UPOZORIL ... Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:33:00 +0200.

Stanovnici Havajskog otočja upozoreni su da se pripreme za mogući nuklearni napad nakon povećanih napetosti između SAD-a i Sjeverne Koreje. Vlasti ove savezne države savjetovale su stanovnike da se pripreme kao da dolazi tsunami ili uragan
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),