M 5 in Japan on 17 Mar 2020 15:10 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 1210410
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 227.14 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.3613 , 138.3071
Event Date: 17 Mar 2020 15:10 UTC
18 Mar 2020 00:10 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2020 15:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008h6c Scaled population (vector) 2.12  
  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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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),