M 6.3 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: 6.3M
Depth: 6.14 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.1809 , 142.4851
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 13:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000fxyq Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  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 (92), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),