M 5.1 in Japan on 31 Dec 2018 14:10 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 1166777
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 43.26 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.4856 , 141.4451
Event Date: 31 Dec 2018 14:10 UTC
31 Dec 2018 23:10 Local
Exposed Population:
2380000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Dec 2018 17:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000izfu Scaled population (vector) 5.69  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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 (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),