M 6.6 in Japan on 13 Jun 2020 15:51 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 1222116
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 159.62 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.9386 , 128.2621
Event Date: 13 Jun 2020 15:51 UTC
14 Jun 2020 00:51 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jun 2020 17:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000abcq Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  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: 64 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 4159: Hardware Acceleration of Tsunam ... Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:46:00 +0200.

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Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, Pages 1924: Deep Learning-Based Identificatio ... Sun, 14 Jun 2020 13:38:00 +0200.

A methodology for the automated identification of building damage from post-disaster aerial images was developed based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and building damage inventories. The aerial images and the building damage data obt
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Strong quake hits Japan coastSun, 14 Jun 2020 13:21:00 +0200.

There were no immediate reports of injury or damage caused by the earthquake; its epicentre was 135 kilometres northwest of Naze, Japan. The quake, which USGS originally recorded as a 6.7-magnitude temblor, was relatively deep at 160 kilome
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),