M 4.9 in Japan on 02 Sep 2020 10:35 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 1232783
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 55.92 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.1064 , 145.838
Event Date: 02 Sep 2020 10:35 UTC
02 Sep 2020 19:35 Local
Exposed Population:
About 95000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Sep 2020 10:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Russia= 4.6; Japan= 1.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bgh8 Scaled population (vector) 4.86  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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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: 180 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Au Japon, les voitures volantes pourraient envahir le ciel d’ici 2023Sun, 06 Sep 2020 10:03:00 +0200.

Le Japon n’est jamais à la traîne quand il s’agit d’innover et d’être à la pointe de la technologie ! Le gouvernement japonais s’intéresse particulièrement au développement des véhicules volants et encourage fortement toutes les initiatives
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Super typhoon continues to track toward southwest JapanSun, 06 Sep 2020 07:41:00 +0200.

An extremely powerful typhoon continued on its path toward southwestern Japan on Sunday, with the weather agency still urging maximum caution despite saying the system has weakened slightly. Typhoon Haishen is approaching Okinawa and Amami-
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4.3 magnitude earthquake hits Nicobar IslandsSun, 06 Sep 2020 05:03:00 +0200.

Seven people were killed after their van collided head-on with a trailer in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, police said on Sunday. The accident occurred near Kesarpura, which comes under the jurisdiction of Bijolia police station, on Saturd
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Violento tifón se dirige a Japón con intensos viento y lluviaSun, 06 Sep 2020 04:57:00 +0200.

Un tifón extremadamente poderoso se dirige este sábado hacia el sudoeste de Japón, donde las autoridades han solicitado la evacuación de miles de residentes, debido a la fuerza de los vientos y las intensas lluvias que puede acarrear. El ti
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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),