M 5.2 in Japan on 16 Feb 2019 10:01 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 1170970
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.293 , 125.0184
Event Date: 16 Feb 2019 10:01 UTC
16 Feb 2019 18:01 Local
Exposed Population:
About 52000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 10:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jitm Scaled population (vector) 4.43  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 177 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Japan govt, Fukushima operator told to pay over nuclear disasterWed, 20 Feb 2019 08:52:00 +0100.

A Japanese court on Wednesday awarded nearly $4 million in fresh damages to scores of residents forced to flee their homes after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The Yokohama district court ordered the government and Tokyo Electric Powe
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Japan govt, Fukushima operator told to pay over nuclear disasterWed, 20 Feb 2019 06:35:00 +0100.

TOKYO, Feb 20, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A Japanese court Wednesday awarded nearly $4 million in fresh damages to scores of residents forced to flee their homes after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The Yokohama district court ordered the gover
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Japan govt, Fukushima operator told to pay over nuclear disasterWed, 20 Feb 2019 06:01:00 +0100.

Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese court Wednesday awarded nearly $4 million in fresh damages to scores of residents forced to flee their homes after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The Yokohama district court ordered the government and Tokyo El
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Supermoon 2019: Super Snow Moon triggers FLOOD ALERTS and EXTREME high ... Wed, 20 Feb 2019 05:14:00 +0100.

The Snow Moon’s gravitational pull can cause tides to be high when the Moon is full or new. The effect results in a Perigean spring tide. Experts have also linked supermoons to earthquakes. So far, flooding is expected in the north-west an
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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),