M 4.9 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 31 Jan 2021 15:51 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 1253933
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 128.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.1809 , 143.8612
Event Date: 31 Jan 2021 15:51 UTC
01 Feb 2021 01:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2021 16:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ddfb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),