M 4.5 in Japan on 19 May 2015 17:17 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 1055325
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 54.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.9388 , 141.9196
Event Date: 19 May 2015 17:17 UTC
20 May 2015 02:17 Local
Exposed Population:
1536335 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2015 20:01 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),