M 4.5 in Japan on 16 Dec 2022 00:25 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 1350664
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 97.151 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.0441 , 139.7455
Event Date: 16 Dec 2022 00:25 UTC
16 Dec 2022 09:25 Local
Exposed Population:
6.1 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2022 00:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000j9ld Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),