M 4.9 in Japan on 11 Dec 2021 21:34 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 1301069
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 58.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.2929 , 146.3403
Event Date: 11 Dec 2021 21:34 UTC
12 Dec 2021 07:34 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2021 21:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Russia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Russia= 4.6; Japan= 1.5

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gbhs Scaled population (vector) 4.31  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.13  
  Country Vulnerability -0.43  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),