M 5.5 in Japan on 28 Jan 2020 01:36 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 1203848
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 78.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.558 , 145.9487
Event Date: 28 Jan 2020 01:36 UTC
28 Jan 2020 11:36 Local
Exposed Population: About 97000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2020 01:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Russia= 4.6; Japan= 1.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007huu Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 158 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Call for more research into nuclear disastersSat, 01 Feb 2020 00:28:00 +0100.

Twelve months on from the Fukushima power plant disaster , little is known about what happens to nuclear fuels during extreme conditions, an American scientist claims. Rodney Ewing, from the University of Michigan and two other nuclear wast
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Ants can save millions from earthquakesFri, 31 Jan 2020 19:28:00 +0100.

; Credit: © Shutterstock. When California and Japan, Indonesia, Italy and Greece next suffer the worst of earthquakes, there is help already available, apart from the early warning seismology that tsunami warning centres (TWCs) provide. Ger
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5.3-magnitude quake strikes Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, no tsunami war ... Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:25:00 +0100.

TOKYO, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on Saturday struck Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at 2:07 a.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitud
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),