M 6.1 in Japan on 04 Apr 2024 03:16 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 1422553
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 40.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7196 , 141.924
Event Date: 04 Apr 2024 03:16 UTC
04 Apr 2024 12:16 Local
Exposed Population: 2.1 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2024 03:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m9sq Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),