M 5.6 in Japan on 04 May 2020 13:07 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 1216616
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 41.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.6765 , 140.8939
Event Date: 04 May 2020 13:07 UTC
04 May 2020 22:07 Local
Exposed Population: 10950000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 May 2020 13:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us700099s8 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  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: 181 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Coronavirus latest: End 'tsunami of hate' over pandemic, UN chief dema ... Fri, 08 May 2020 07:16:00 +0200.

- The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen to nearly 270,000, while more than 3.8 million people are known to have been infected. - Australia will begin easing social distancing measures in a three-step process, says PM Scott Morrison.
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Coronavirus latest: End 'tsunami of hate' — UN chief The pandemic cont ... Fri, 08 May 2020 06:44:00 +0200.

- The global death toll from COVID-19 has risen to nearly 270,000, while more than 3.8 million people are known to have been infected. - Australia will begin easing social distancing measures in a three-step process, says PM Scott Morrison.
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Earthquake mystery as devastation preceded by 'strange wobble' - bombs ... Fri, 08 May 2020 05:22:00 +0200.

Michael Bevis, study co-author and professor of earth sciences at The Ohio State University, said: "What happened in Japan was an enormous but slow wobble - something never observed before. "But are all giant earthquakes preceded by wobbles
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Symmetry, Vol. 12, Pages 778: Similar Seismic Activities Analysis by U ... Thu, 07 May 2020 16:31:00 +0200.

Seismic activities show a space-time symmetry in some research. They have been recently studied using complex network theory. Earthquake network similarity is studied by us from seismic catalogs in the same region for a given period of time
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),