M 6.4 in Japan on 18 Jun 2019 13:22 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 1182855
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 12 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.646 , 139.4723
Event Date: 18 Jun 2019 13:22 UTC
18 Jun 2019 22:22 Local
Exposed Population: About 50000 people in MMI
2220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jun 2019 13:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0 0.1
us600042fx Scaled population (raster) 3.51 Max wave alert 0.09m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.09m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.57      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 648 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

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Début 2011, Angela Merkel y tenait : elle promettait de maintenir en vie les centrales nucléaires plus longtemps que prévu. Mais une catastrophe naturelle a changé la donne. Le 11 mars 2011, la centrale de Fukushima au Japon explose après u
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China's earthquake early warning system effective, saves lives: develo ... Fri, 21 Jun 2019 05:02:00 +0200.

China's earthquake early warning system developer rebutted criticisms from expert of media hype, saying the system has been proved to be able to help people escape from danger when facing high-magnitude earthquake and reassure the public du
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Pak, Japan enjoy long friendship: EnvoyThu, 20 Jun 2019 23:15:00 +0200.

READ MORE: Atletico Madrid sign Marcos Llorente from neighbors Real The ambassador and his wife, Naoko Matsuda, hosted a reception to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Japan Self-Defence Forces Day. Lt General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Adju
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Japon : l’erreur d’un employé fait croire à un incident nucléaireThu, 20 Jun 2019 22:05:00 +0200.

La compagnie d'électricité japonaise Tepco a failli créer la panique dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi en signalant des anomalies sur un site nucléaire à la suite d'un séisme. Il s'agissait en fait d'une erreur d'un employé. L'employé de Tok
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),