M 5.8 in Southeast Of Honshu, Japan on 30 Jul 2020 00:35 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 1228147
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 9.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.638 , 141.8599
Event Date: 30 Jul 2020 00:35 UTC
30 Jul 2020 09:35 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jul 2020 00:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b6i4 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude-5.8 earthquake jolts JapanThu, 30 Jul 2020 08:13:00 +0200.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Japan early Thursday, the country's meteorological agency reported. The epicenter of the quake was on the deserted Tori-shima Island, located in the southeast of the country, and took place 60 kilometers (3
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Magnitude-5.8 earthquake jolts JapanThu, 30 Jul 2020 06:26:00 +0200.

TOKYO, Japan A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Japan early Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency reported. The epicenter of the quake was on the deserted Tori-shima Island, located in the southeast of the country, and took place 60
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Magnitude-5.8 earthquake jolts JapanThu, 30 Jul 2020 06:23:00 +0200.

Quake occurs at depth of 60 kilometers with epicenter on Tori-shima Island. TOKYO, Japan A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Japan early Thursday, the country's meteorological agency reported. The epicenter of the quake was on the deserted T
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USS McCambell Departs Yokosuka, Celebrates Success while Forward-Deplo ... Tue, 07 Jul 2020 03:20:00 +0200.

Navy News Service. Story Number: NNS200704-01 Release Date: 7/4/2020 7:50:00 PM. By Lieutenant Junior Grade Lauren Larar, USS McCampbell Public Affairs Officer. PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- USS McCampbell (DDG 85) departed Fleet Activities Yokosu
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),