M 5.8 in Japan on 12 Apr 2013 20:33 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 123970
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 14 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.3686 , 134.831
Event Date: 12 Apr 2013 20:33 UTC
13 Apr 2013 05:33 Local
Exposed Population:
15984285 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2013 21:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
usb000g5yg 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),