M 4.9 in Japan on 13 May 2016 19:05 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 1086260
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 6.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.0622 , 129.2961
Event Date: 13 May 2016 19:05 UTC
14 May 2016 04:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44730 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2016 19:27 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.
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),