M 4.6 in Japan on 05 Feb 2022 02:46 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 1308865
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.7261 , 142.4334
Event Date: 05 Feb 2022 02:46 UTC
05 Feb 2022 11:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2022 03:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gi61 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),