M 6.2 in Japan on 24 Jan 2018 10:51 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 1131776
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 39.75 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.1217 , 142.294
Event Date: 24 Jan 2018 10:51 UTC
24 Jan 2018 19:51 Local
Exposed Population: 400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2018 11:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000cnnl Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0.01m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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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 (88), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),