M 4.6 in Japan on 17 Sep 2020 05:00 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 1235693
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 51.85 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5178 , 140.5254
Event Date: 17 Sep 2020 05:00 UTC
17 Sep 2020 14:00 Local
Exposed Population:
10720000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2020 06:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bp9m Scaled population (vector) 7.04  
  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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 144 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima : un musée commémoratif ouvre ses portesSun, 20 Sep 2020 13:27:00 +0200.

Le premier musée public commémorant la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima a ouvert ses portes ce dimanche au public, à Futuba dans le nord-est du Japon. La catastrophe de Fukushima a désormais son musée. Il vient d'ouvrir ses portes au publ
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Sept. 19, 1:26 pm Olympics will go on — with or without COVID-19Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:47:00 +0200.

People wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of COVID-19 sit at a bus stop in front of an advertisement for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in Bangkok on March 23, 2020. The postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics will ha
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'Of one thing we can be certain, the fires will return': Greg Mullins' ... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:08:00 +0200.

The large billowing plumes of brown smoke in the distance were turning black against the dome of blue sky. Even as a boy of 12, standing in his front yard in Sydney on a hot, windy morning in October 1971, Greg Mullins knew that this meant
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The Tokyo Olympics will be held “with or without” the Covid-19, accord ... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:39:00 +0200.

The Tokyo Olympics, postponed to 2021, will take place next year, regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, John Coates, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Monday. In a telephone interview with AFP on Mon
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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.
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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),