M 4.7 in Japan on 20 Jun 2024 05:37 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 1433944
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 47.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.229 , 142.4008
Event Date: 20 Jun 2024 05:37 UTC
20 Jun 2024 14:37 Local
Exposed Population:
360 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 20 Jun 2024 05:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mtjg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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: 46 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 1

Strong mag. 5.2 earthquake - Izu Islands, Japan Region, on Monday, Jun ... 2024-06-24T04:24+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Katsuura , a town with 22,000 inhabitants in Japan , in 358 km (222 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In
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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, June 232024-06-23T18:27+0200.

JAKARTA -- One person was killed and two others missing following flood in Parigi Moutong regency, Central Sulawesi province in Indonesia, the national disaster management agency said on Sunday. "High-intensity rain fell in the upper Toribu
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Lin Chiling, la beauté qui a reçu des éloges pour son coup d’envoi mir ... 2024-06-23T12:53+0200.

(Wang Xinyu, journaliste de la Central News Agency, Taipei, 23) L’artiste Lin Chi-ling a participé à un événement public au Japon pour la première fois en cinq ans. Hier, elle s’est rendue au stade Esko au Japon pour donner le coup d’envoi
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4.9-magnitude earthquake jolts Japan2024-06-23T10:53+0200.

Tokyo: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 on Sunday struck the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima, said the country’s weather agency. The temblor occurred at around 12:12 p.m. local time at a depth of 50 km, measur
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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),