M 4.6 in Japan on 24 Sep 2024 00:38 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 1446943
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 37.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.6915 , 130.6911
Event Date: 24 Sep 2024 00:38 UTC
24 Sep 2024 09:38 Local
Exposed Population:
4 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 24 Sep 2024 00:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ntzs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),