M 4.5 in Japan on 24 Dec 2013 22:41 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 1021253
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 42.08 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.8383 , 141.2067
Event Date: 24 Dec 2013 22:41 UTC
25 Dec 2013 07:41 Local
Exposed Population:
2442650 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Dec 2013 23:34 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),