M 4.6 in Japan on 19 Dec 2021 01:51 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 1302377
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.4761 , 142.1972
Event Date: 19 Dec 2021 01:51 UTC
19 Dec 2021 10:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2021 02:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdic Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),