M 5.5 in Japan on 14 Jan 2025 17:12 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 1462270
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 30.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.6833 , 131.8022
Event Date: 14 Jan 2025 17:12 UTC
15 Jan 2025 02:12 Local
Exposed Population: 660 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2025 17:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pjxl Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),