M 4.5 in Japan on 18 May 2016 13:33 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 1086508
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 34.89 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.327 , 141.7166
Event Date: 18 May 2016 13:33 UTC
18 May 2016 22:33 Local
Exposed Population:
617283 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2016 13:51 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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),