M 4.9 Off-shore on 30 Dec 2019 00:32 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 1200064
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 11.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8138 , 142.8402
Event Date: 30 Dec 2019 00:32 UTC
30 Dec 2019 10:32 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2019 01:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006sb2 Scaled population (vector) 0.57  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),