M 4.6 in Japan on 01 Nov 2020 03:13 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 1241993
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 22.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2686 , 128.828
Event Date: 01 Nov 2020 03:13 UTC
01 Nov 2020 12:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 57000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Nov 2020 03:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c8v2 Scaled population (vector) 4.78  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
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: 118 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake early warning in Aotearoa New Zealand: a survey of public p ... Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:03:00 +0100.

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TRAINING DAY New principals in Miyagi meet with relatives of kids lost ... Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:23:00 +0100.

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--It was job training like no other for newly appointed school princip
MetMalaysia proactively monitors earthquake, tsunami threatsWed, 04 Nov 2020 06:34:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR: Taking the tsunami which affected several northern peninsular states on Dec 26, 2004 as a lesson learnt, the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) will continue to proactively act and monitor earthquake activities
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IJERPH, Vol. 17, Pages 8130: Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake ... Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:26:00 +0100.

The Great East Japan Earthquake devasted the old community in coastal areas characterized by primary industry. The number of unemployed people increased from 150,000 to 190,000 after the earthquake. All of the adult residents of Shichigaham
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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),