M 4.5 in Japan on 29 Jan 2024 15:19 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 1412627
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 64.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.9718 , 142.3464
Event Date: 29 Jan 2024 15:19 UTC
30 Jan 2024 00:19 Local
Exposed Population:
500 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2024 06:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000luqg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Japan PM grateful to N. Korean leader for quake sympathy message 2/2/2024 11:26:00 AM.

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Various factors limited SDF’s response to Noto earthquake February 2, .. 2/2/2024 11:10:00 AM.

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