M 5.5 in Japan on 26 Jan 2019 08:23 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 1168922
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 36.89 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.3435 , 142.1958
Event Date: 26 Jan 2019 08:23 UTC
26 Jan 2019 17:23 Local
Exposed Population: 690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2019 08:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j94y Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 208 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Japan to bolster steps for foreigners in event of massive Tokyo quakeWed, 30 Jan 2019 06:56:00 +0100.

The transport ministry said Tuesday it plans to strengthen measures to help foreign visitors in the event of a massive earthquake in Tokyo ahead of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. The ministry will beef up airports and railways' quake re
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Seminar on earthquake risk assessment and protection takes place 1 hou ... Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:53:00 +0100.

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. A task force of the project, ‘Strengthening the National Capacity of Earthquake Disaster Protection and Prevention in Mongolia, currently being co-implemented by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and th
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Climate change will alter gender ratio of newborns, scientists sayTue, 29 Jan 2019 15:16:00 +0100.

Researchers have warned climate change will lead to extreme weather events, increase human mental health problems and internally displace more than 143 million people. A recent study from Japan, where temperatures have increased an average
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 221: Numerical Study on the Hydrodynamic Charact ... Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:51:00 +0100.

Abstract Submarine pipelines have been extensively used for marine oil and gas extraction due to their high efficiency, safety, and low price. However, submarine pipelines are vulnerable to extreme waves (i.e., tsunami waves). Previous rese
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),