M 5.3 in Japan on 28 Jan 2020 23:39 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 1203987
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.193 , 126.771
Event Date: 28 Jan 2020 23:39 UTC
29 Jan 2020 07:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 9000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2020 23:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007ilr Scaled population (vector) 2.99  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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),