M 4.7 in Bonin Islands, Japan Region on 30 Sep 2017 21:07 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 1122754
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 485.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.653 , 139.9751
Event Date: 30 Sep 2017 21:07 UTC
01 Oct 2017 06:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Sep 2017 21:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000ax9r Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 272 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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La homosexualidad sigue siendo un tabú en el fútbol británicoWed, 04 Oct 2017 19:55:00 +0200.

En agosto, Ryan Atkin se convirtió en el primer árbitro profesional del fútbol inglés en reconocer públicamente su homosexualidad, esperando que su decisión ayude a combatir la homofobia en el deporte rey. Entre los jugadores, el inglés Jus
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“Io non rischio”: Borrelli ringrazia il Presidente della Repubblica pe ... Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:49:00 +0200.

(Di mercoledì 4 ottobre 2017) Sabato 14 ottobre, circa 5mila volontari e volontarie di protezione civile appartenenti a oltre 700 organizzazioni allestiranno punti informativi “Io non rischio” nelle piazze dei capoluoghi di provincia per se
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),