M 6.1 in Japan from 23 May 2012 15:02 UTC to 15:02

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 117138
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 40.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.3782 , 142.073
Event Date: 23 May 2012 15:02 UTC
24 May 2012 00:02 Local
Exposed Population:
About 56898 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2012 15:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb0009wev Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Japão recusou engenheiros dos EUA durante tragédia de Fukushima 5/27/2012 3:02:00 PM.

O Japão recusou uma oferta dos Estados Unidos de incluir engenheiros nucleares americanos na célula de crise constituída ao redor do primeiro-ministro japonês após a catástrofe nuclear de Fukushima, revelou neste domingo um ministro japonês
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Svet šokoval masakr v Húlá, Je to tsunami lží, tvrdí Sýrie 5/27/2012 2:33:00 PM.

Syrský režim odmítá zodpovednost za pátecní masakr ve meste Húlá. Odpurci vlády Bašára Asada tvrdí, že stredosyrské mesto se stalo tercem bombardování. Podle opozice i predstavitelu OSN zahynulo 92 lidí vcetne 32 detí mladších deseti let. V
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Hosono visits Fukushima plant to quell fears over No. 4's pool 5/27/2012 1:58:00 PM.

The environment and nuclear minister visited the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant Saturday to inspect a spent-fuel pool that has been raising safety concerns and said it appears to have been properly reinforced. The visit by Goshi Hoson
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The wait at sea 5/27/2012 1:51:00 PM.

Fourteen months after Japan's killer tsunami sent boats, bodies, homes and tons of other material into Earth's largest ocean, no one knows when the debris will begin landing on Hawaii shores — or whether it will even be identifiable when it
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),