M 4.5 in Japan on 14 Feb 2019 01:45 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 1170756
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 362.29 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.8192 , 137.1168
Event Date: 14 Feb 2019 01:45 UTC
14 Feb 2019 10:45 Local
Exposed Population:
550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2019 01:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jhq5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 195 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Alejandra Blanco: una posadeña que por amor cruzó los maresSun, 17 Feb 2019 14:04:00 +0100.

Lejos de sus afectos y sin conocer el idioma, Alejandra Blanco dejó su Misiones natal para embarcarse tras el amor de su vida . Los primeros tiempos en Japón no fueron para nada fáciles pero gracias al acompañamiento y la comprensión de Uli
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Handcycling Across Japan for the Mental Health Care of the Surviving C ... Sun, 17 Feb 2019 12:41:00 +0100.

Josh Shinton Charity Adventurer Nationwide Japan Hand-Cycling Challenge to Fundraise to Provide Mental Health Care for the Earthquake Tsunami Surviving Children. TOKYO, JAPAN, February 17, 2019 / EINPresswire.com / -- "Starting on March 11,
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Japón: el robot que fue al lugar que ningún humano pudoSun, 17 Feb 2019 08:40:00 +0100.

La compañía de electricidad japonesa Tepco lanzó el pasado miércoles una operación inédita en la central nuclear de Fukushima -que fue arrasada por un terremoto y un tsunami en 2011-, enviando un robot a uno de los reactores para “tocar” el
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Memories of Fukushima crisis rapidly fading, warn civic groupsSat, 16 Feb 2019 10:25:00 +0100.

The memories of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have been rapidly fading in Japan, making it difficult to grasp what is actually happening in the area, civic groups warned. Almost eight years after the massive earthquake and tsunami in
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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.
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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),