M 4.6 in Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on 13 May 2022 15:47 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 1322415
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 42.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.2301 , 142.7439
Event Date: 13 May 2022 15:47 UTC
14 May 2022 01:47 Local
Exposed Population:
130 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2022 17:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hkxr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),