M 5.9 in Japan on 26 Jul 2017 10:32 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 1117932
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.9202 , 130.1896
Event Date: 26 Jul 2017 10:32 UTC
26 Jul 2017 19:32 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2017 10:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a18e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),