M 4.6 in Japan on 28 Jul 2020 20:33 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 1228001
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35.76 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.9541 , 140.6008
Event Date: 28 Jul 2020 20:33 UTC
29 Jul 2020 05:33 Local
Exposed Population:
26280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2020 21:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b5lm Scaled population (vector) 7.13  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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

Articles: 130 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

Entropy, Vol. 22, Pages 859: Assessing the Potential Earthquake Precur ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:48:00 +0200.

In order to clarify ultra-low-frequency (ULF) seismomagnetic phenomena, a sensitive geomagnetic network was installed in Kanto, Japan since 2000. In previous studies, we have verified the correlation between ULF magnetic anomalies and local
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37 hours on flight from Equatorial Guinea bringing Vietnamese citizens ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 08:08:00 +0200.

After a long journey to bring more than 200 Vietnamese citizens home safely, the crew were all relieved and happy to have fulfilled an important mission. Flight attendant Pham Xuan Truong, who was also on flights repatriating Vietnamese cit
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Providing assistance to school meal programmes Japan donates 388 tonne ... Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:23:00 +0200.

Courtesy The Daily News Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary
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Japan donates 388 tonnes of canned fish to Sri Lanka, WFPFri, 31 Jul 2020 23:45:00 +0200.

Director of Health and Nutrition at the Ministry of Education, Renuka Peiris; Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Sri Lanka, Kitamur Toshihiro; WFP Deputy Country Director of Sri Lanka, Andrea Berardo; Secretary of the Ministry of Educ
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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),