M 5 in Off East Coast Of Honshu, Japan on 28 Oct 2013 20:59 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 1010321
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35.54 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.45 , 145.58
Event Date: 28 Oct 2013 20:59 UTC
29 Oct 2013 06:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2013 21:23 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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Latest media headlines

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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),