M 5.1 in Japan on 10 Aug 2022 15:52 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 1333302
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 5.536 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.9566 , 142.1134
Event Date: 10 Aug 2022 15:52 UTC
11 Aug 2022 00:52 Local
Exposed Population:
5 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 10 Aug 2022 16:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i9r3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),