M 6.5 in Japan on 04 Sep 2013 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 1004517
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 404.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.9862 , 138.8108
Event Date: 04 Sep 2013 00:18 UTC
04 Sep 2013 09:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Sep 2013 00:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
usb000jgfc Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Japan to fund ice wall in bid to stop reactor leaks 9/3/2013 9:25:00 PM.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The Japanese government announced Tuesday that it will spend US$470 million on a subterranean ice wall among other measures in a desperate bid to stop leaks of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear stati
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Japan to build $470M ice wall to prevent nuclear leaks 9/3/2013 9:21:00 PM.

Subterranean wall is one of several steps the government is taking to stop radioactive water from seeping from Fukushima plant
Fukushima leaks won’t be threat to Tokyo Olympics – bid leader 9/3/2013 8:50:00 PM.

The leader of Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympics has reassured the IOC that the Japanese capital is totally “safe” and “unaffected” by the leak of radioactive water from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. On September 7, Internati
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Japan to fund ice wall to contain reactor leaks 9/3/2013 8:02:00 PM.

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government announced Tuesday that it will spend $470 million on a subterranean ice wall and other steps in a desperate bid to stop leaks of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after repeated
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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 (81), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (2), (3), INFORM (4), USGS (2),