M 5.5 in Japan on 16 Jul 2021 04:19 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 1277400
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 11.26 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.3082 , 139.4983
Event Date: 16 Jul 2021 04:19 UTC
16 Jul 2021 13:19 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
About 11000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2021 04:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000emeg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),