M 4.5 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 06 Aug 2022 01:41 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 1333240
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 158.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.3148 , 141.366
Event Date: 06 Aug 2022 01:41 UTC
06 Aug 2022 10:41 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2022 02:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i8kj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  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

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),