M 4.9 in Japan on 28 Jun 2024 01:46 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 1434996
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 33.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.5886 , 141.976
Event Date: 28 Jun 2024 01:46 UTC
28 Jun 2024 10:46 Local
Exposed Population:
1.3 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 28 Jun 2024 02:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n8ss Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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

Articles: 903 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 5

Six months after the Noto Peninsula earthquake: the roadmap for recons ... 2024-07-02T01:39+0200.

Editorial. 16:11 Japan Time, July 1, 2024. It has been six months since the Noto Peninsula earthquake struck. In the affected areas, little progress has been made in demolishing damaged buildings. The government must work to remove obstacle
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Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - 104 km southeast of Naze, Kagoshima, Ja ... 2024-07-02T01:09+0200.

Based on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 18.5 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1
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De la energía nuclear al gas argelino2024-07-02T00:36+0200.

Tribuna De la energía nuclear al gas argelino El resultado, no hay duda de ello, es que se fía la futura producción de electricidad a los combustibles fósiles por un periodo indeterminado. Las siete centrales nucleares tienen los días cont
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6 months later.. Deep sadness for the victims of the Noto earthquake｜J ... 2024-07-02T00:19+0200.

KANAZAWA – Residents of areas affected by the Jan. 1 earthquake on the Noto Peninsula in central Japan held prayers for the victims on Monday, marking half a year since the disaster. At the Ishikawa Prefectural Government Office in Kanazawa
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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.
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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),