M 4.7 in Eastern Honshu, Japan on 17 Sep 2020 00:18 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 1235660
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 56.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.5054 , 141.8526
Event Date: 17 Sep 2020 00:18 UTC
17 Sep 2020 09:18 Local
Exposed Population:
1410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2020 00:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bp7n Scaled population (vector) 6.19  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Disaster Philanthropy: What MattersTue, 15 Sep 2020 19:41:00 +0200.

Few foundations think of themselves as disaster funders … until the next disaster strikes. Their desire to be strategic and have impact leads them to shun program areas and ways of working that are reactive in nature. But the desire to help
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Typhoons becoming bigger and nastier: Can Tokyo withstand the next big ... Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:26:00 +0200.

When it comes to destructive typhoons, the general agreement is that the worst in living memory occurred September 1959, when Typhoon No. 15 -- also referred to as Typhoon Vera and the Ise-wan Taifu -- struck the Chubu region. Packing ultra
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 strikes Banda SeaTue, 08 Sep 2020 07:47:00 +0200.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Another strong earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hit Banda Sea in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Tuesday, though no tsunami alert was reported. The quake, which struck at 7:45 West Indonesia Standard Time (WIB), w
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Un séisme frappe l’est du JaponMon, 07 Sep 2020 09:36:00 +0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 5,2 a secoué l'est du Japon ce lundi 7 septembre, rapporte l'Agence météorologique japonaise. L'épicentre a été enregistré dans la préfecture d'Ibaraki, près de Tokyo, à une profondeur de 20 kilomètres

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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),