M 6 in Japan on 06 Oct 2017 07:59 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 1123180
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.485 , 143.9537
Event Date: 06 Oct 2017 07:59 UTC
06 Oct 2017 17:59 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Oct 2017 08:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000b1v8 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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

Articles: 614 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Asia-Pacific: the world's most disaster-prone regionTue, 10 Oct 2017 07:49:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR: (Thomson Reuters Foundation) More than 2 million people - an average of 43,000 per year - have been killed by natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region since 1970, according to the latest United Nations’ figures. In 2016, d
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FACTBOX-Asia-Pacific: the world's most disaster-prone regionTue, 10 Oct 2017 07:26:00 +0200.

By Beh Lih Yi. KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 2 million people - an average of 43,000 per year - have been killed by natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region since 1970, according to the latest United Nati
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Tsunami threats maps for Otago releasedTue, 10 Oct 2017 06:50:00 +0200.

Online maps detailing tsunami threats along the Otago coast have been released. Emergency Management Otago on Tuesday released the online maps of evacuation zones, which shows three coloured zones: red, orange and yellow. The maps, which pr
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New Otago tsunami maps show evacuation zonesTue, 10 Oct 2017 06:29:00 +0200.

Civil Defence has released new maps of the Otago coast that grade which individual properties would be evacuated in a tsunami alert. The new searchable internet-based maps on the Emergency Management Otago website mark out three coloured z
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),