M 4.5 in Japan on 13 Feb 2022 19:24 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 1309975
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 32.53 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.158 , 131.032
Event Date: 13 Feb 2022 19:24 UTC
14 Feb 2022 04:24 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2022 20:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gklh Scaled population (vector) 4.72  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),