M 5.5 in Japan on 21 Feb 2019 12:22 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 1171503
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 41.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.8126 , 141.9491
Event Date: 21 Feb 2019 12:22 UTC
21 Feb 2019 21:22 Local
Exposed Population: 550000 people in MMI
3410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2019 12:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jl3a Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 214 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Donald Keene, lauded scholar of Japanese literature, dies at 96Mon, 25 Feb 2019 05:07:00 +0100.

Prominent U.S.-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene , who introduced a roster of talented writers from Japan to the world, died of cardiac arrest at a Tokyo hospital on Sunday. He was 96. Keene obtained Japanese citizenship in 2012
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Japón celebra ceremonia por 30 años de reinado de emperador AkihitoMon, 25 Feb 2019 04:38:00 +0100.

Tokio. El gobierno de Japón realizó hoy una ceremonia en el Teatro Nacional para conmemorar los 30 años del reinado del emperador Akihito, antes de su abdicación el 30 de abril próximo, informaron fuentes locales. El primer ministro de Japó
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Japan commemorates 30 years of Emperor Akihito's reignSun, 24 Feb 2019 22:31:00 +0100.

TOKYO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Japan held a ceremony commemorating 30 years of Emperor Akihito's reign on Sunday as the emperor is about to abdicate on April 30. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who attended the ceremony held here in Tokyo, said in a
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PENTAGON: GUAM MILITARY BUILDUP LACKS FUNDSSun, 24 Feb 2019 16:20:00 +0100.

By Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno. HAGATNA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, Sept. 19) – Guam's future role as a bigger hub to U.S. military readiness in the Pacific is underscored in a new federal report. But at the same time, Pentagon officials have voi
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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),