M 5.6 in Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on 02 Jan 2020 18:23 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 1200510
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 17.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.8033 , 141.1341
Event Date: 02 Jan 2020 18:23 UTC
03 Jan 2020 03:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
5040000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2020 19:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006ttf Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Latest media headlines

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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),