M 5.5 in Japan on 30 Dec 2016 20:08 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 1102166
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 11.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.3973 , 141.4103
Event Date: 30 Dec 2016 20:08 UTC
31 Dec 2016 05:08 Local
Exposed Population: 680000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2016 20:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ntd Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),