M 4.6 in Japan on 22 May 2018 20:11 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 1143861
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 152.91 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.217 , 140.399
Event Date: 22 May 2018 20:11 UTC
23 May 2018 05:11 Local
Exposed Population:
1410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2018 20:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ea4r Scaled population (vector) 5.99  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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),