M 4.6 in Japan on 30 Aug 2020 21:00 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 1232416
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2399 , 128.9038
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 21:00 UTC
31 Aug 2020 06:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 53000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2020 02:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bf3g Scaled population (vector) 4.7  
  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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Typhoon injures 18 in Japan before moving to Korean PeninsulaThu, 03 Sep 2020 10:24:00 +0200.

At least 18 people have been injured on Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu as powerful Typhoon Maysak passed near the region before moving to the Korean Peninsula on Thursday, local authorities said. Another typhoon, Haishen, is exp
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolts Japanese islandsThu, 03 Sep 2020 09:08:00 +0200.

Quake occurs at depth of 10 kilometers; no tsunami alert issued. 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 qua
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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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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),