M 5.6 in Japan on 15 Jun 2014 20:14 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 1034370
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 39.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.1118 , 141.0782
Event Date: 15 Jun 2014 20:14 UTC
16 Jun 2014 05:14 Local
Exposed Population: 2940000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jun 2014 20:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 268 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Japón supervisará por satélite los efectos de Fukushima y ChernóbilThu, 19 Jun 2014 20:00:00 +0200.

Dos satélites japoneses serán lanzados este viernes al espacio para hacer un seguimiento del efecto que han tenido en el medio ambiente las crisis nucleares de Fukushima y Chernóbil. Los dos satélites desarrollados por la Universidad de Kio
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Japão supervisionará por satélite os efeitos de Fukushima e ChernobylThu, 19 Jun 2014 17:11:00 +0200.

Satélites japoneses serão lançados nesta sexta-feira para realizar função. Dispositivos farão fotos das duas usinas nucleares e de seus arredores.
Camera boat maps Japan tsunami coastThu, 19 Jun 2014 16:04:00 +0200.

Camera-mounted boats are being used in a new attempt to map Japan's tsunami-hit coast from the sea, it's been reported. The "Street View from the Ocean" programme will take panoramic photographs of the Sanriku coast on the north-east of Jap
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Un cutremur cu magnitudinea 6,4 s-a produs în VanuatuThu, 19 Jun 2014 16:01:00 +0200.

Un cutremur de 6,4 magnitudine seismică a avut loc, joi, în Vanuatu, potrivit Centrului Seismologic Euro-Mediteraneean. Seismul s-a produs la o adâncime de 60 kilometri, la ora locală 21:17 (13:17 ora României). Epicentrul a fost localizat
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),