M 5.8 in Japan on 26 Sep 2017 20:22 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 1122432
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 36.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3206 , 142.4059
Event Date: 26 Sep 2017 20:22 UTC
27 Sep 2017 05:22 Local
Exposed Population: 190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Sep 2017 15:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000av31 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),