M 4.5 in Japan on 28 Nov 2021 14:54 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 1298911
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 12.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.0889 , 141.502
Event Date: 28 Nov 2021 14:54 UTC
28 Nov 2021 23:54 Local
Exposed Population:
80 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Nov 2021 15:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fxrk Scaled population (vector) 3.89  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),