M 5.1 in Near East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on 03 Jan 2023 07:08 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 1352898
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 42.121 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.2638 , 142.5972
Event Date: 03 Jan 2023 07:08 UTC
03 Jan 2023 17:08 Local
Exposed Population:
420 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 03 Jan 2023 07:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j1s3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),