M 4.6 in Japan on 22 Jun 2023 17:33 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 1379604
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.3596 , 141.4387
Event Date: 22 Jun 2023 17:33 UTC
23 Jun 2023 02:33 Local
Exposed Population:
8 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 22 Jun 2023 18:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000kae2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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Fukushima nuclear plant operator says equipment to release treated was.. 6/26/2023 2:23:00 PM.

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Fukushima nuclear plant operator says equipment to release treated was.. 6/26/2023 2:22:00 PM.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),