M 6.8 in Japan on 12 May 2015 21:12 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1054656
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 38.86 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.902 , 142.0324
Event Date: 12 May 2015 21:12 UTC
13 May 2015 06:12 Local
Exposed Population: 120000 people in MMI
1330000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2015 21:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1.1 0.1 1.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.11m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 576 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

US team pulls woman from collapsed 4-story building in NepalSat, 16 May 2015 01:51:00 +0200.

US rescuers from California, Virginia pull woman from collapsed 4-story building in Nepal In this May 12, 2015 photo provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team, members of the Los Angeles C
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US team pulls woman from collapsed 4-story building in NepalSat, 16 May 2015 01:50:00 +0200.

U.S. rescuers from California and Virginia helped pull a 41-year-old woman from a four-story building that collapsed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake in Nepal. Tuesday's temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 earthquake that killed more t
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US Team Pulls Woman From Collapsed 4-Story Building in NepalSat, 16 May 2015 01:49:00 +0200.

U.S. rescuers from California and Virginia helped pull a 41-year-old woman from a four-story building that collapsed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake in Tuesday's temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 earthquake that killed more than 8,
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Antalya, Kaş ve Göller Bölgesi'ne ciddi deprem uyarısı!Sat, 16 May 2015 01:22:00 +0200.

Son 1 haftada Girit Adası açıklarında 36 küçük deprem yaşandı. Nepal’deki depremlerin bölgeyi tetiklediğini belirten uzmanlar, Girit’in 5 yıldır gergin olduğunu, burada oluşacak depremin Göller Bölgesi’ni, Elmalı Yarımadası’nı, Antalya’yı,
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),