M 4.8 in Japan on 06 Jan 2023 04:44 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 1353272
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.4602 , 137.3088
Event Date: 06 Jan 2023 04:44 UTC
06 Jan 2023 13:44 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2023 05:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j2gw 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)

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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),