M 5.3 in Japan on 21 Dec 2013 01:34 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 1020820
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.5786 , 140.73
Event Date: 21 Dec 2013 01:34 UTC
21 Dec 2013 10:34 Local
Exposed Population:
18265316 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Dec 2013 01:50 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),