M 4.6 in Japan on 24 Apr 2014 19:02 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 1030459
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35.69 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.4414 , 140.8115
Event Date: 24 Apr 2014 19:02 UTC
25 Apr 2014 04:02 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Apr 2014 19:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Small earthquake strikes off Oregon coast - USGS 4/26/2014 12:54:00 AM.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of Oregon in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but it did not trigger a tsunami warning. The USGS said the quake, which was only 6.
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Small earthquake strikes off Oregon coast - USGS 4/26/2014 12:51:00 AM.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of Oregon in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but it did not trigger a tsunami warning.
Small earthquake strikes off Oregon coast: USGS 4/26/2014 12:19:00 AM.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of Oregon in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but it did not trigger a tsunami warning.
Possible Japanese tsunami debris investigated in Washington state 4/25/2014 10:52:00 PM.

A seaweed- and barnacle-encrusted boat has washed ashore on Washington's Long Beach peninsula, triggering an investigation by park rangers as to whether its a possible piece of Japanese tsunami debris. , Oregon Public Broadcasting is report
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),