M 4.6 in Japan on 05 Mar 2021 06:14 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 1258817
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 64.41 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.0397 , 142.4629
Event Date: 05 Mar 2021 06:14 UTC
05 Mar 2021 15:14 Local
Exposed Population:
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Mar 2021 06:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dfvm Scaled population (vector) 5.13  
  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.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 478 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Le 11 mars 2011, un tremblement de terre et un tsunami engendraient la ... Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:09:00 +0100.

Le 11 mars 2011, un tremblement de terre et un tsunami engendraient la plus grande catastrophe nucléaire du 21ème siècle à la centrale de Fukushima, au Japon. Comment cet évènement a-t-il influencé ou marqué les artistes japonais ? Tewfik
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High school students want to hand down 2011 disaster experienceTue, 09 Mar 2021 05:51:00 +0100.

Around 90 percent of high school students at six schools in northeastern Japan said they wanted their experiences from the March 11, 2011, quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster to be handed down to future generations in the hope lessons can b
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Fukushima reverend prays for revival of radiation-hit churchTue, 09 Mar 2021 05:39:00 +0100.

A notice for a Sunday mass that was never held is still posted on a billboard at the steel entry gate. Above sit a damaged cross and a rusty bell. Inside, a ray of sunshine illuminates empty pews. The silence is shattered only by the alarm
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Fukushima reverend prays for revival of radiation-hit churchTue, 09 Mar 2021 05:35:00 +0100.

OKUMA, Japan (AFP) - Reverend Akira Sato dreams of hearing hymns echo once again through the church he was forced to leave behind after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster a decade ago. Ten years after a tsunami overwhelmed the cooling s
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),