M 4.7 in Japan on 18 Jun 2024 11:21 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 1433666
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 44.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.8435 , 125.3752
Event Date: 18 Jun 2024 11:21 UTC
18 Jun 2024 20:21 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 18 Jun 2024 12:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mt5s 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

Articles: 40 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 1

Paride Vitale: "Venite in Abruzzo, dove si spende poco e si respira ar ... 2024-06-22T09:51+0200.

Quando Paride Vitale ha pensato di scrivere un libro dedicato all'Abruzzo, ossia la regione in cui è nato e cresciuto e alla quale sente di dover tornare più volte durante l'anno, pochi avrebbero scommesso sul fatto che avrebbe superato le
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Paride Vitale: «Venite in Abruzzo, dove si spende poco e si respira ar ... 2024-06-22T07:02+0200.

Quando Paride Vitale ha pensato di scrivere un libro dedicato all'Abruzzo, ossia la regione in cui è nato e cresciuto e alla quale sente di dover tornare più volte durante l'anno, pochi avrebbero scommesso sul fatto che avrebbe superato le
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Moderate mag. 4.6 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 96 km southeast of ... 2024-06-22T03:32+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Hitachi , a city with more than 190,000 inhabitants in Japan , in 96 km (60 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there.
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Heat waves deadlier than hurricanes. Make them ‘disasters’2024-06-21T20:46+0200.

Mark Gongloff. Unlike other natural disasters, extreme heat doesn’t topple buildings, flood streets or turn road signs into missiles. It doesn’t provide a dramatic backdrop for daredevil weather reporters. What it mostly does is kill people
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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),