M 4.6 in Japan on 27 Jul 2018 01:25 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 1151736
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 11.82 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.2594 , 128.899
Event Date: 27 Jul 2018 01:25 UTC
27 Jul 2018 10:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 85000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2018 01:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000gewh Scaled population (vector) 3.93  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),