M 4.9 in Japan on 20 Sep 2024 12:22 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 1446482
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 50.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.2622 , 132.2763
Event Date: 20 Sep 2024 12:22 UTC
20 Sep 2024 21:22 Local
Exposed Population:
460 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2024 12:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nt9k 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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"C''è un allarme nucleare": il messaggio che vi arriverà (ma che non v.. 9/24/2024 10:58:00 AM.

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"C''è un allarme nucleare": il messaggio che vi arriverà (ma che non v.. 9/24/2024 9:55:00 AM.

(Di martedì 24 settembre 2024) Se giovedì 26 settembre il vostro cellulare squillerà in modo strano annunciandovi un allarme nucleare , non preoccupatevi: si tratta, infatti, di una nuova esercitazione del sistema informativo It-Alert.“L’ob
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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),