M 4.6 in Japan on 23 May 2017 14:16 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 1113661
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 26.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.8335 , 131.3971
Event Date: 23 May 2017 14:16 UTC
23 May 2017 23:16 Local
Exposed Population:
350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2017 15:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ueb 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Drone footage shows Japans progress rebuilding Fukushima shoreline 5/27/2017 1:05:00 PM.

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