M 5 in Japan on 16 Jul 2020 20:03 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 1226619
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 499.98 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.299 , 136.8041
Event Date: 16 Jul 2020 20:03 UTC
17 Jul 2020 05:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2020 20:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000apwb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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: 190 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

Kisumu City gallery, Kenya's 3rd citySat, 18 Jul 2020 22:25:00 +0200.

It will be hard geographically because Kisumu like entebbe and mwanza lie on significant seismic fault lines within lake victoria basin. This has led to earthquakes in Uganda and Tanzania that could be felt in Kisumu. In 2016 a magnitude 5.
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Books: Five new books to read in lockdown this weekSat, 18 Jul 2020 16:29:00 +0200.

If you're a fan of Louise Candlish, you'll soon be adding The Other Passenger to your favourites list - and if you're not already a fan, you soon will be. Set around an unusual commute, The Other Passenger explores the complexities of money
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Reporter - Haruo Obata, Super Volunteer 18.07.2020 | 12:36 mins. 80-ye ... Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:22:00 +0200.

Haruo Obata had gone into retirement just before the tsunami hit. After the disaster, he spent over a year living in his car and helping out where he was needed most. His marriage didn't survive his commitment, but Haruo Obata is still happ
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Brothers at arms recall World War II bombs, malaria and poisoned wineFri, 17 Jul 2020 19:41:00 +0200.

It’s a wonder twins Bill and Oliver Candy made it home from World War II – Bill caught malaria, and Oliver’s tank was bombed and he drank poisoned wine. Jimmy Ellingham and Denise Piper report. Bill Candy’s memory never failed him. And alth
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),