M 4.9 in Japan on 18 Jan 2019 20:04 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 1168444
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 39.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.7964 , 142.4008
Event Date: 18 Jan 2019 20:04 UTC
19 Jan 2019 05:04 Local
Exposed Population:
440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2019 17:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j61y Scaled population (vector) 4.71  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 175 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

New tsunami warnings could get more people to safetyTue, 22 Jan 2019 15:54:00 +0100.

On a Friday afternoon in the spring of 2011, the Tōhoku-Oki earthquake shook northeastern Japan for six minutes and shifted the country’s main island by eight feet. Minutes later, residents began receiving tsunami warnings through broadcast
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Greenpeace slams Japan’s plan to dump radioactive Fukushima water into ... Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:25:00 +0100.

Greenpeace has slammed a plan by the Japanese government and an electric utility company to release into the ocean highly radioactive water from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi power plant , saying in a new report the decision was
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QUAKE HITS Indonesia hit by 6.6 earthquake as Ring of Fire island suff ... Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:28:00 +0100.

AN earthquake has hit Indonesia as the Ring of Fire island suffers its SECOND disaster in two months. The quake was 6.6 on the Richter scale when it struck the city of Raba on Sumbawa, this morning. There were no immediate reports of casua
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Famous dogs on the Internet with millions of social-media followers | ... Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:39:00 +0100.

(Straits Times/ANN) -- You might have seen his pictures online and squealed over his cuteness. You might also have spent a good amount of time watching videos of him frolicking about. But you won't be able to do so anymore. News of Boo the
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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),