M 6.4 in Southeast Of Honshu, Japan on 30 May 2015 18:49 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 1056286
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 13.39 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.7681 , 143.0206
Event Date: 30 May 2015 18:49 UTC
31 May 2015 04:49 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 May 2015 19:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),