M 4.5 in Japan on 16 Apr 2021 11:51 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 1265001
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.2886 , 142.1671
Event Date: 16 Apr 2021 11:51 UTC
16 Apr 2021 20:51 Local
Exposed Population:
480000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2021 14:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e21g Scaled population (vector) 4.86  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),