M 4.7 in Eastern Honshu, Japan on 24 Aug 2014 08:26 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 1038532
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 82.22 Km
Lat/Lon: 36 , 139.82
Event Date: 24 Aug 2014 08:26 UTC
24 Aug 2014 17:26 Local
Exposed Population:
40682560 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Aug 2014 09:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 0
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: 416 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Tepco, responsabilă de catastrofa de la FukushimaThu, 28 Aug 2014 05:45:00 +0200.

O instanță niponă a decis în premieră că operatorul centralei nucleare de la Fukushima, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. (Tepco), este responsabil de sinuciderea unei femei, petrecută în urma catastrofei nucleare din martie 2011, după un puter
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Advierten riesgos en planta nuclear de California por terremotosThu, 28 Aug 2014 05:15:00 +0200.

Un terromoto en las fallas geológicas de California podría desencadenar un desastre como el de Fukushima

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),