M 6 in Japan on 28 Mar 2023 09:18 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 1366980
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 34 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.148 , 142.805
Event Date: 28 Mar 2023 09:18 UTC
28 Mar 2023 19:18 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2023 10:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000k09q Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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: 347 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

UPI Archives: Boat feared lost in tsunami found safe2023-04-01T09:09+0200.

TOKYO, March 12 (UPI) -- A fishing boat thought to have fallen victim to the tsunami following Japan's 8.9-magnitude earthquake has been found with all aboard alive, officials said. The vessel was found beached near a port in Hachinohe, Aom
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UPI Archives: Indian Ocean tsunami death toll reaches 9,5002023-04-01T09:09+0200.

A tsunami of extraordinary violence caused by an underwater quake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale -- the most powerful quake in the last 40 years -- struck a large swath of Southeast Asia Sunday, possibly killing as many as 9,500 people.
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Chile: se percibe sismo de magnitud 4.1 en la ciudad de Huasco2023-04-01T07:51+0200.

Un sismo de magnitud 4.1 se percibió en la ciudad chilena de Huasco , según información oficial del Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN). La información actualizada precisa que la actividad sísmica comenzó a las 02:30 horas (hora local) de est
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Se registra sismo de magnitud 3.5 en San Pedro2023-04-01T07:25+0200.

La ciudad chilena de San Pedro fue el epicentro de un temblor de magnitud 3.5 que se registró a las 01:51 horas (hora local) de este sábado 1 de abril. El sismo ocurrió a 95.0 kilómetros de la ciudad y tuvo una profundidad de 203.0 kilómetr
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),