M 6.6 in Japan on 05 Sep 2018 18:07 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 1155881
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 33.36 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.6711 , 141.933
Event Date: 05 Sep 2018 18:07 UTC
06 Sep 2018 03:07 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
3310000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2018 19:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0 0.6
us2000h8ty Scaled population (vector) 5.17 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.57      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1602 | About casualties: 188 | Last hour: 0

16:46 | CATASTROPHE NATURELLE Un nouveau bilan du séisme qui a frappé ... Sun, 09 Sep 2018 17:38:00 +0200.

Japon: Un nouveau bilan du séisme fait état de 42 morts. CATASTROPHE NATURELLE Le Premier ministre nippon a visité ce dimanche les régions touchées par le séisme… Un tremblement de terre de 6,6 magnitude de Richter a frappé l'île d'Hokkaïd
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Death toll nears 40 in northern Japan earthquakeSun, 09 Sep 2018 17:34:00 +0200.

Police search missing persons around houses destroyed by a landslide after an earthquake in Atsuma town, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The death toll has hit 39 from a powerful that struck the northern Japanese island
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Death toll nears 40 in northern Japan earthquakeSun, 09 Sep 2018 17:33:00 +0200.

Police search missing persons around houses destroyed by a landslide after an earthquake in Atsuma town, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The death toll has hit 39 from a powerful that struck the northern Japanese island
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Confirman la muerte de 39 personas por sismo en JapónSun, 09 Sep 2018 17:15:00 +0200.

Los rescatistas continúan la búsqueda de supervivientes tras el sismo de 6.7 grados Richter del jueves y de enormes deslizamientos de tierra en Hokkaido, norte de Japón, mientras que ya se confirmó la muerte de 39 personas y que hay un desa
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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

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Daily Maps:

06/Sep/2018 05:59 UTC

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),