M 4.9 in Japan on 13 Feb 2022 06:50 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 1309890
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 42.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.3966 , 144.2391
Event Date: 13 Feb 2022 06:50 UTC
13 Feb 2022 16:50 Local
Exposed Population:
300 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2022 07:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gkfy Scaled population (vector) 5.05  
  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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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),