M 4.6 in Japan on 26 Feb 2021 04:04 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 1257524
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 57.95 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.6007 , 141.6216
Event Date: 26 Feb 2021 04:04 UTC
26 Feb 2021 13:04 Local
Exposed Population:
1690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2021 04:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ddsn Scaled population (vector) 5.34  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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