M 4.6 in Japan on 19 Oct 2018 17:30 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 1159457
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 43.21 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.3761 , 142.9373
Event Date: 19 Oct 2018 17:30 UTC
20 Oct 2018 02:30 Local
Exposed Population:
420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Oct 2018 14:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000helt Scaled population (vector) 5.5  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 202 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Another Japan firm admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbersTue, 23 Oct 2018 17:08:00 +0200.

A Japanese company supplying equipment to protect buildings from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Tuesday, a week after a Tokyo-based firm revealed a similar fraud. Kawakin Holdings' oil damper unit altered data fo
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Another Japan firm admits falsifying data for quake shock absorbersTue, 23 Oct 2018 16:14:00 +0200.

TOKYO: A Japanese company supplying equipment to protect buildings from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Tuesday (Oct 23), a week after a Tokyo-based firm revealed a similar fraud. Kawakin Holdings' oil damper unit
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6.1-magnitude quake jolts JapanTue, 23 Oct 2018 10:42:00 +0200.

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Japan's prefecture on Tuesday but no tsunami warning was issued, the weather agency said. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor's epicentre was located at a
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Sismo de 6,1 grados sacude sur japonés sin alerta de tsunamiTue, 23 Oct 2018 10:34:00 +0200.

23 de octubre de 2018, 01:51 Tokio, 23 oct (PL) Un sismo de 6,1 grados de magnitud estremeció hoy la prefectura de Okinawa, ubicada en extremo sur de Japón, sin generar hasta momento amenaza de tsunami. La Agencia Meteorológica Nacional es
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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),