2008-07-24 Earthquake in Japan on 24 July, 2008

Emergency Obs. Request Information

  • Disaster Type: Earthquake
  • Country: Japan
  • Occurrence Date (UTC):
  • SA activation Date(UTC): 24 July, 2008
  • Requester: Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
  • Escalation to the International Charter:
  • GLIDE Number:

Disaster Situation

A strong earthaquakeoccurred inIwate, north-east of Japan, this earlymorning. CAO of Japan has requested a emergency observation and it isforwarded to you hereby. The request has also transmitted to JAXA byphone.