M 5.6 in Japan on 09 Jul 2015 18:32 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 1059835
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 79.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3643 , 141.4784
Event Date: 09 Jul 2015 18:32 UTC
10 Jul 2015 03:32 Local
Exposed Population:
2073173 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jul 2015 22:13 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.5 -0.5
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Sismos en el Perú 7/13/2015 3:16:00 PM.

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Letter from Nepal: Setting off to help earthquake victims 7/13/2015 3:02:00 PM.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),