M 4.8 in Japan on 24 Apr 2022 05:16 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 1319918
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.94 , 126.5814
Event Date: 24 Apr 2022 05:16 UTC
24 Apr 2022 13:16 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Apr 2022 06:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hfzw Scaled population (vector) 3.69  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),