M 4.6 in Japan on 27 Jul 2014 18:09 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 1036759
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 65.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.5 , 140.6
Event Date: 27 Jul 2014 18:09 UTC
28 Jul 2014 03:09 Local
Exposed Population:
25455596 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2014 18:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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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: 283 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Piden cargos penales por crisis nuclear japonesaThu, 31 Jul 2014 18:03:00 +0200.

Un panel judicial japonés recomendó que tres ex ejecutivos de una empresa que operaba las centrales nucleares de Fukushima enfrenten cargos penales por su papel en el desastre.
TEPCO logs 1st pretax profit in 4 yrs for April-June qtr.Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:47:00 +0200.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it turned to the black on a group pretax basis in the April-June quarter for the first time in the four years since the 2011 nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant. For the three-month per
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E.Leclerc zaprasza jutro na "Kino pod gwiazdami"Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:20:00 +0200.

1 sierpnia o godz. 21.00 E.Leclerc w Ostrołęce zaprasza na wspólne oglądanie filmu. Tym razem...
French ballerinas offer lessons in FukushimaThu, 31 Jul 2014 14:39:00 +0200.

A group of French ballet stars from the renowned Paris Opera donned tutus and tights in the shadow of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and twirled their way into the hearts of local students.

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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.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),