M 4.8 in Japan on 29 May 2015 16:06 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 1056193
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 55.74 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0902 , 139.834
Event Date: 29 May 2015 16:06 UTC
30 May 2015 01:06 Local
Exposed Population:
40426676 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2015 17:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),