M 4.5 in Japan on 20 Nov 2013 21:23 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 1012655
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 125.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.33 , 140.67
Event Date: 20 Nov 2013 21:23 UTC
21 Nov 2013 06:23 Local
Exposed Population:
2952865 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Nov 2013 22:14 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

S. Korea unveils new lists of victims of colonial Japan 11/20/2013 10:14:00 AM.

The Seoul government on Tuesday disclosed newly found lists of nearly 230,000 Korean victims of massacre and forced labour during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. The revelation shed new light on Japan .....
Korea unveils new lists of victims of colonial Japan 11/20/2013 7:13:00 AM.

The Seoul government on Tuesday disclosed newly found lists of nearly 230,000 Korean victims of massacre and forced labour during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. The revelation shed new light on Japan .....
Trove of colonization records found in embassy 11/20/2013 12:26:00 AM.

Dusty records discovered in Tokyo when the Korean Embassy was reconstructed last June shed new light on some of the horrors of Japanese imperial rule over Korea, including the number of Koreans killed in the 1919 March 1 Independence Moveme
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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),