M 4.9 in Japan on 25 Feb 2017 16:03 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 1106451
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 90.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.1559 , 140.4044
Event Date: 25 Feb 2017 16:03 UTC
26 Feb 2017 01:03 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Feb 2017 16:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20008meq 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: 452 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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Ice Tsunami: il Fond du Lac...Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:22:00 +0100.

Ice Tsunami: il Fond du Lac Yacht Club sul Lake Winnebago sommerso dal ghiaccio – 01 marzo 2017 – Tra tutti i fenomeni rari e bizzarri che non finiscono mai di stupirci, sicuramente va annoverato il cosiddetto “ ice tsunami “, scientificame
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01 Mar 2017 LOCALS in Dublin 7 fear a tsunami of traffic around Arbour ... Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:14:00 +0100.

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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),