M 4.7 in Japan on 27 Oct 2020 07:01 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 1241053
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 42.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1507 , 142.6434
Event Date: 27 Oct 2020 07:01 UTC
27 Oct 2020 17:01 Local
Exposed Population:
170000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Oct 2020 07:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cdmw Scaled population (vector) 4.5  
  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: 187 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

‘Desi’ breed search and rescue specialists, NDRF trains first lot of s ... Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:17:00 +0100.

Blaze and Tiger are trainees at the National Disaster Response Force’s (NDRF) dog squad used ins search and rescue operations. So training the four strays– sometimes called desi — into a battalion that already has 20 well trained non-desi d
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AP News Digest 2:10 p.m.Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:23:00 +0100.

WESTERN-GRAY-WOLF-25-YEARS — Wolves have repopulated the mountains and forests of the American West with remarkable speed since their reintroduction 25 years ago, expanding to more than 300 packs in six states. Now voters in Colorado are po
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¡Perros cazafantasmas! Cinco perros que advirtieron la presencia paran ... Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:35:00 +0100.

E n una publicación de National Geographic, reseñan cómo antes del tsunami de 2004 y 2006 en Indonesia y de 2011 en Japón los perros habían tenido comportamientos extraños, mostrándose nerviosos, queriendo huir de sus lugares habituales o r
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NDRF trains first lot of stray dogs as search, rescue specialistsFri, 30 Oct 2020 06:57:00 +0100.

Blaze and Tiger are the latest trainee members of the National Disaster Response Force’s (NDRF) dog squad which helps personnel carry out search-and-rescue operations. Contrary to the conventional norm, Blaze and Tiger are neither German Sh
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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),