M 4.5 in Japan on 04 Sep 2020 00:10 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 1233043
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0821 , 136.2639
Event Date: 04 Sep 2020 00:10 UTC
04 Sep 2020 09:10 Local
Exposed Population:
4390000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Sep 2020 00:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bhk5 Scaled population (vector) 6.82  
  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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 210 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Tokyo Olympics will go ahead ‘with or without Covid’ - IOC’s CoatesMon, 07 Sep 2020 22:46:00 +0200.

Sydney, Monday: Tokyo’s postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice president John Coates told AFP Monday, vowing they will be the “Games that conquered Covid”. The Olympics have never been ca
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Tokyo Games will go ahead 'with or without Covid'Mon, 07 Sep 2020 21:41:00 +0200.

Tokyo's postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice president John Coates said yesterday, vowing they will be the "Games that conquered Covid". The Olympics have never been cancelled outside o
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El vicepresidente del COI dijo que los Juegos Olímpicos se harán "con ... Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:31:00 +0200.

Durante una entrevista telefónica con la agencia AFP, el presidente del Comité de Coordinación del COI para la cita en Japón afirmó que la cita tendrá lugar "con o sin" coronavirus y precisó que "empezarán el 23 de julio del próximo año". "
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Tokyo Olympics will go ahead 'with or without Covid', says IOC VP The ... Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:04:00 +0200.

The postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead next year "with or without Covid", the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee says. John Coates confirmed to news agency AFP that the Olympics would start on 23 July next year,
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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),