M 4.6 in Japan on 06 Aug 2022 14:52 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 1333248
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 361.663 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.8488 , 135.9503
Event Date: 06 Aug 2022 14:52 UTC
06 Aug 2022 23:52 Local
Exposed Population:
26.4 million in MMI II
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2022 15:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i8nc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),