M 4.9 in Japan on 21 Jan 2013 19:46 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 122068
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 35.832 , 140.87
Event Date: 21 Jan 2013 19:46 UTC
22 Jan 2013 04:46 Local
Exposed Population:
12500000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2013 20:13 UTC

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000esbl 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
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Obama loyalist McDonough named White House chief of staff 1/25/2013 7:43:00 PM.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday named longtime foreign policy aide Denis McDonough as his new White House chief of staff, tapping a trusted loyalist to help drive his second-term agenda as he unveiled a major overhau
...(more)
Obama loyalist McDonough named White House chief of staff 1/25/2013 7:33:00 PM.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday named longtime foreign policy aide Denis McDonough as his new White House chief of staff, tapping a trusted loyalist to help drive his second-term agenda as he unveiled a major overhau
...(more)
UPDATE1: Number of foreign visitors to Japan hits 2nd highest level in.. 1/25/2013 5:09:00 PM.

The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2012 rose 34.6 percent from the previous year to 8,368,000, reaching the second-highest level since comparable data began to be compiled in 1964, the Japan National Tourism Organization s
...(more)
Größte Atomanlage Japans liegt nahe Bruchstellen 1/25/2013 4:41:00 PM.

Die größte Atomanlage Japans liegt teilweise auf geologischen Bruchstellen, die nach den neuen Sicherheitsnormen als aktiv betrachtet werden könnten. Nun droht der Anlage womöglich die Schließung.

View more news

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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),