M 4.6 in Japan from 17 Feb 2020 03:40 UTC to 03:40

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1206832
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.906 , 140.3123
Event Date: 17 Feb 2020 03:40 UTC
17 Feb 2020 12:40 Local
Exposed Population:
38230000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2020 04:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us70007rmf Scaled population (vector) 7.54  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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

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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),