M 4.9 in Japan on 12 May 2021 03:46 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 1268422
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.4122 , 141.3683
Event Date: 12 May 2021 03:46 UTC
12 May 2021 12:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2021 04:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e2ar Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 315 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate 4.5 quake hits near Hitachi, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, JapanSat, 15 May 2021 13:35:00 +0200.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake near Hitachi, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, Japan, was reported only 11 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity
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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off Japan's Fukushima prefectureSat, 15 May 2021 00:29:00 +0200.

Tokyo, May 14 (UNI) A 6.0 magnitude earthquake was registered on Friday off the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. The tremor was recorded at 0858 hrs local time (23:58 GMT on Thursday
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Powerful 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles JapanFri, 14 May 2021 23:59:00 +0200.

Japan is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. Tokyo: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the East Coast of Honshu, Japan on Friday, National Centre for Seismology said,
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),