M 5.8 in Japan on 19 Oct 2017 09:02 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 1124225
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.3205 , 131.2016
Event Date: 19 Oct 2017 09:02 UTC
19 Oct 2017 18:02 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Oct 2017 09:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000au13 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 466 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Tajfun Lan uderzył w Japonię. Dwie osoby nie żyją, blisko sto jest ran ... Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:53:00 +0200.

Z powodu tajfunu zmarły trzy osoby. Sześćdziesięciolatek, na którego runęło rusztowanie, gdy uderzył w nie silny wiatr oraz pewien rybak, którego porwała gwałtownie przybierająca woda. Trzeciego mężczyznę przysypała ziemia, gdy lawina błotn
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Uderzył w Japonię, pozostawił po sobie pas zniszczeńMon, 23 Oct 2017 08:30:00 +0200.

Gdzie uderzył tajfun Lan? Lan uderzy najpewniej w okolice Tokio w poniedziałek rano. Meteorolodzy prognozują, że wówczas w środkowej i wschodniej Japonii podmuchy wiatru mogą sięgać 162 km na godz. Jednak już w niedzielę żywioł spowodował z
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Myanmar: More investment in disaster countermeasures needed: Vice-Pres ... Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:19:00 +0200.

Vice President U Henry Van Thio stressed the need to evaluate the effectiveness of Myanmar’s existing mechanisms in mitigating the impact of disasters, inviting governments, local and international organisations and the private sector to in
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Team of international scientists studying active zone off North Island ... Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:05:00 +0200.

An international team of researchers have started studying the active zone off the North Island's East Coast which they say could trigger a mega-quake or tsunami. Scientists from around the world are focusing on the Hikurangi Subduction Zo
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),