M 5.6 in Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on 18 May 2022 03:52 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 1323004
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 12.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.3383 , 141.3833
Event Date: 18 May 2022 03:52 UTC
18 May 2022 12:52 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2022 04:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hlxg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),