M 4.5 in Japan on 08 Aug 2015 12:58 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 1062539
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 59.93 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.1622 , 144.735
Event Date: 08 Aug 2015 12:58 UTC
08 Aug 2015 21:58 Local
Exposed Population:
531191 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2015 13:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),