M 4.8 in Japan on 31 Jul 2020 02:11 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 1228286
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.8713 , 129.4575
Event Date: 31 Jul 2020 02:11 UTC
31 Jul 2020 11:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jul 2020 02:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b795 Scaled population (vector) 2.75  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),