M 4.5 in Japan on 25 Oct 2024 21:20 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 1450818
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 74.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.7799 , 139.3177
Event Date: 25 Oct 2024 21:20 UTC
26 Oct 2024 06:20 Local
Exposed Population:
7.9 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2024 21:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nn8r 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)

Latest media headlines

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Netanyahu ha pronta una legge per limitare l’attività dell’Agenzia Onu.. 10/28/2024 7:47:00 AM.

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Netanyahu ha pronta una legge per limitare l’attività dell’Agenzia Onu.. 10/28/2024 7:42:00 AM.

(Di lunedì 28 ottobre 2024) I ministri degli esteri di alcuni alleati chiave di Israele (Canada, Australia, Francia, Germania, Giappone, Corea del Sud e Regno Unito) hanno rilasciato una dichiarazione congiunta in cui esprimono “grave preoc
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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),