M 6.3 in Japan on 27 Jul 2019 18:31 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 1184759
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 375.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.1122 , 137.3534
Event Date: 27 Jul 2019 18:31 UTC
28 Jul 2019 03:31 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2019 18:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us60004wjb Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 188 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Life expectancy of Japanese women, men continues to rise in 2018Wed, 31 Jul 2019 01:17:00 +0200.

Japanese women and men retained second and third places, respectively, on the world's average life expectancy ranking in 2018 as both groups topped a previous record for the seventh consecutive year, government data showed Tuesday. The aver
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Disaster drillTue, 30 Jul 2019 19:06:00 +0200.

Admit it: did you wake up at 4 a.m. last Saturday for the nationwide “shake drill”? Me neither. A colleague said the homeowners in her condominium building agreed to hold an earthquake drill at 4 in the afternoon of Saturday. I received a c
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Corporate Banpu Power showcases post-disaster contribution to Fukushim ... Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:35:00 +0200.

During the visit, Wataru Shima, chief executive officer of Banpu Power (Japan)/Tokyo branch presented the Fukushima prefecture recovery plan through renewable power generation to Associate Teaching Professor Jessica McManus Warnell and rese
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Life expectancy of Japanese women and men continues to rise in 2018Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:19:00 +0200.

Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ The life expectancy of Japanese women was ranked second in the world in 2018. |
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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 (84), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),