M 4.8 in Southeast Of Honshu, Japan on 29 Sep 2014 14:55 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 1040578
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 40.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.33 , 140.39
Event Date: 29 Sep 2014 14:55 UTC
29 Sep 2014 23:55 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2014 19:45 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)

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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),