M 5.8 in Japan on 03 Aug 2021 20:33 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 1280022
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.1095 , 142.0887
Event Date: 03 Aug 2021 20:33 UTC
04 Aug 2021 05:33 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2021 20:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f1z7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 179 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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We are grateful to the landowners and staff of Misasa town and Kurayoshi city in the Tottori prefecture for their great help in the seismic observations. We are also grateful to the staff of the Tottori prefecture office for their great hel
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5.9-magnitude quake jolts Taiwan, typhoon warning issued2021-08-06T06:10+0200.

TAIPEI (AFP, KYODO, AP) - The Straits Times/ANN - A 5.9-magnitude earthquake rattled Taiwan on Thursday morning (Aug 8), the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries and casualties. The quake struck at 5.2
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At the Tokyo Olympics, food from Fukushima turns into diplomatic confl ... 2021-08-06T05:30+0200.

For Koreans and Japanese alike, the semi-final of the Olympic baseball tournament, played on the evening of August 4 at Yokohama Stadium, is the match not to lose. Number one sport in both countries, baseball crystallizes passions at each m
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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),