M 4.5 in Japan on 19 Feb 2016 08:13 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 1080913
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 29.42 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.2524 , 143.5789
Event Date: 19 Feb 2016 08:13 UTC
19 Feb 2016 18:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2016 08:39 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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National › Crown prince turns 56; hopes disaster-hit area can recover .. 2/23/2016 7:52:00 AM.

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