M 4.7 in Japan on 08 Aug 2018 09:07 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 1153072
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 14.53 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.244 , 141.186
Event Date: 08 Aug 2018 09:07 UTC
08 Aug 2018 18:07 Local
Exposed Population:
2250000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2018 09:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g59j Scaled population (vector) 6.1  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 190 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Fighting fire with fire: How controlled blazes are used to avert a gre ... Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:49:00 +0200.

As wildfires wreak havoc in California and leave 90 dead in Greece, Robert Matthews looks at why 'putting out the fire with gasoline' is often the only option Firefighters battle the Ferguson Fire, the largest fire in the Sierra National F
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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to again refrain from eulogizing Koreans kille ... Sat, 11 Aug 2018 02:53:00 +0200.

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has said she will not send a memorial address for an annual ceremony to mourn Koreans who died in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake — including those murdered in the turmoil after the quake — for the second consecutive
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AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in AsiaFri, 10 Aug 2018 09:11:00 +0200.

In Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, file photo, Namio Matsura, a 17-year-old member of the computation skill research club at Fukuyama Technical High School, watches Hiroshima city before atomic bomb fell in virtual reality experience at the high scho
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AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in AsiaFri, 10 Aug 2018 08:43:00 +0200.

In Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, file photo, Namio Matsura, a 17-year-old member of the computation skill research club at Fukuyama Technical High School, watches Hiroshima city before atomic bomb fell in virtual reality experience at the high scho
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),