M 6.3 in Japan on 04 Aug 2019 10:23 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 1185564
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 38.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7344 , 141.5361
Event Date: 04 Aug 2019 10:23 UTC
04 Aug 2019 19:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 87000 people in MMI
2570000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Aug 2019 10:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us600050if Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.57      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 236 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Taiwan braces for typhoon hours after earthquake strikesThu, 08 Aug 2019 07:34:00 +0200.

A super typhoon hitting the coast of Taiwan. (Reuters pic) TAIPEI: A powerful typhoon will hit Taiwan later on Thursday, bringing the risk of landslides and high seas, weather forecasters said. This comes just hours after a 6.0-magnitude ea
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Taiwan braces for typhoon hours after earthquake strikesThu, 08 Aug 2019 07:28:00 +0200.

TAIPEI - A powerful typhoon will hit Taiwan later on Thursday, bringing the risk of landslides and high seas, weather forecasters said, hours after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the island. Typhoon Lekima, categorized at the strongest t
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Taiwan braces for typhoon hours after earthquake strikesThu, 08 Aug 2019 07:24:00 +0200.

TAIPEI: A powerful typhoon will hit Taiwan later on Thursday (Aug 8), bringing the risk of landslides and high seas, weather forecasters said, hours after a Typhoon Lekima, categorised at the strongest typhoon level by Taiwan's weather bure
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Taiwan braces for typhoon hours after 6.0 quake strikesThu, 08 Aug 2019 07:17:00 +0200.

A powerful typhoon will hit Taiwan later on Thursday, bringing the risk of landslides and high seas, weather forecasters said, hours after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the island. Typhoon Lekima, categorised at the strongest typhoon le
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),