M 4.5 in Japan on 01 Dec 2020 17:11 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 1245895
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 33.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.236 , 143.0555
Event Date: 01 Dec 2020 17:11 UTC
02 Dec 2020 03:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 27000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Dec 2020 18:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000clqp Scaled population (vector) 3.44  
  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

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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),