M 4.8 in Japan on 14 Jun 2020 18:15 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 1222253
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.8797 , 123.1795
Event Date: 14 Jun 2020 18:15 UTC
15 Jun 2020 02:15 Local
Exposed Population:
About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2020 19:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000abr4 Scaled population (vector) 3.4  
  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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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),