M 4.6 in Japan on 15 Jan 2022 01:28 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 1305998
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 71.63 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.3175 , 141.6627
Event Date: 15 Jan 2022 01:28 UTC
15 Jan 2022 10:28 Local
Exposed Population:
2.5 million in 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2022 01:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gc5l Scaled population (vector) 6.12  
  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: 268 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Tonga volcanic eruption is a '1-in-1,000-year event,' volcanologist sa ... 2022-01-18T21:52+0100.

Three deaths have been confirmed in the Pacific nation of Tonga after a massive underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted on Saturday. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano, located just 40 miles away from Tonga’s main
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Tonga volcanic eruption is a '1-in-1,000-year event,' volcanologist sa ... 2022-01-18T21:32+0100.

Three deaths have been confirmed in the Pacific nation of Tonga after a massive underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted on Saturday. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano, located just 40 miles away from Tonga’s main
...(more)
Is the tide level change “unprecedented” true? Delays in tsunami warni ... 2022-01-18T20:46+0100.

The eruption occurred in Tonga after 13:00 JST on Saturday, 15th. Since a huge umbrella-shaped eruption could be immediately confirmed on the meteorological satellite image, it was judged that the eruption was a very large scale, so informa
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Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (11 - 17 J ... 2022-01-18T14:24+0100.

TONGA. An eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha-apai underwater volcano on 15 January caused a tsunami and ash fall in Tonga, with a 5km wide and 20km high plume of ash, steam and gas. The eruption was one of the biggest in Tonga in the past
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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),