M 4.6 in Japan on 15 Jan 2014 23:11 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 1023692
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 11.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.3421 , 142.0368
Event Date: 15 Jan 2014 23:11 UTC
16 Jan 2014 08:11 Local
Exposed Population:
2098569 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2014 00:04 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),