M 6.4 in Japan on 29 Nov 2021 12:40 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 1299075
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 19.85 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.2002 , 142.4937
Event Date: 29 Nov 2021 12:40 UTC
29 Nov 2021 21:40 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 29 Nov 2021 13:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000fxyq Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (88), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),