M 4.7 in Japan on 29 Sep 2022 15:03 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 1339824
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 6.386 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.7814 , 140.6023
Event Date: 29 Sep 2022 15:03 UTC
30 Sep 2022 00:03 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2022 16:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ipci 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

Articles: 197 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

"Victory Bouquets" Art Installation Opens at Boston Children's Museum2022-10-03T14:35+0200.

BOSTON (PRWEB) October 03, 2022. Boston Children's Museum will open the Victory Bouquets art installation in the Japanese House Gallery on Wednesday, October 5. The Victory Bouquets exhibit tells stories of joy, victory, and growth expresse
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Rachel Mealey2022-10-03T06:56+0200.

is an ABC reporter based in Japan. She did her cadetship with ABC Brisbane in 1997, then moved to ABC Longreach for one year. I got a job in Sydney Radio CAFF straight after that and worked there for four years before moving to TV news. Rac
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Japon: un séisme de magnitude 5,9 frappe le sud-ouest2022-10-02T14:08+0200.

Un tremblement de terre de magnitude de 5,9 sur l'échelle de Richter a frappé dimanche matin la préfecture de Miyazaki, dans le sud-ouest du Japon, et d'autres régions, a indiqué l'agence météorologique locale. Selon l’Agence météorologiqu
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An #earthquake with a Preliminary Magnitude of 5.9 Struck #Japan's Sou ... 2022-10-02T10:18+0200.

The latest Tweet by IANS India states, 'An #earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck #Japan's southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki and other areas early Sunday.' An #earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck #Japan
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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),