M 5 in Japan on 11 Dec 2016 13:45 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 1100607
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 34.98 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.6342 , 143.9879
Event Date: 11 Dec 2016 13:45 UTC
11 Dec 2016 23:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2016 14:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007zz0 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),