M 6 in Japan on 14 Feb 2012 06:21 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 114846
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.1539 , 141.494
Event Date: 14 Feb 2012 06:21 UTC
14 Feb 2012 15:21 Local
Exposed Population:
238615 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2012 06:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
usb000802f 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.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),