M 4.8 in Japan on 16 Oct 2017 12:47 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 1123976
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.1938 , 141.9721
Event Date: 16 Oct 2017 12:47 UTC
16 Oct 2017 21:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2017 13:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000asq7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),