M 5.4 in Japan on 21 Nov 2016 21:10 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 1098990
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.3491 , 141.4858
Event Date: 21 Nov 2016 21:10 UTC
22 Nov 2016 06:10 Local
Exposed Population:
527025 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2016 21:55 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007b8h 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),