M 4.8 in Japan on 11 Apr 2017 18:10 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 1110028
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 65.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.1642 , 140.1796
Event Date: 11 Apr 2017 18:10 UTC
12 Apr 2017 03:10 Local
Exposed Population:
32440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2017 18:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us10008gq6 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),