M 4.6 in Japan on 30 Aug 2020 05:37 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 1232323
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 71.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.2149 , 139.7113
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 05:37 UTC
30 Aug 2020 14:37 Local
Exposed Population:
39810000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 06:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000beye Scaled population (vector) 7.64  
  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

Articles: 153 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Japanese islandsThu, 03 Sep 2020 04:22:00 +0200.

TOKYO, Japan. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands early Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency reported. The agency said the quake occurred around 12:21 a.m. local time on Hahajima Island at a d
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Letter from mom’s pen pal delivers heartfelt lesson of familyThu, 03 Sep 2020 01:57:00 +0200.

When she was growing up in Wakayama Prefecture, Chiaki Hakamada would often find postcards and letters sent to her mother from an address in Miyagi Prefecture. “My mother simply told me that she had someone she was exchanging messages with,
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M5.5 quake rattles southern Japanese islandsWed, 02 Sep 2020 20:22:00 +0200.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 struck early Thursday off the Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, the weather agency said. The 12:21 a.m. quake, which originated at a depth of about 10 kilometers, reg
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Unpacking the U.S.-Japan AllianceWed, 02 Sep 2020 17:23:00 +0200.

Forged in the wake of World War II, the U.S.-Japan security alliance is as important as ever to both countries’ interests in Asia. In recent years, a more assertive China, a nuclear-armed North Korea, and other challenges have pushed the al
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),