M 5.7 in Japan on 25 Oct 2018 18:36 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 1159920
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 43.74 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.2868 , 141.7858
Event Date: 25 Oct 2018 18:36 UTC
26 Oct 2018 03:36 Local
Exposed Population: 2350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2018 18:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hh6r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Latest media headlines

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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck the Torishima Island region in southern Japan, the weather agency said on Monday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) the offshore temblor struck at 10:28 am local time
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5.5 magnitude earthquake jolts JapanMon, 29 Oct 2018 06:10:00 +0100.

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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),