M 4.5 in Japan on 30 Jun 2024 01:15 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 1435283
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 46.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.5329 , 140.6273
Event Date: 30 Jun 2024 01:15 UTC
30 Jun 2024 10:15 Local
Exposed Population:
230 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 30 Jun 2024 02:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n99j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),