M 4.9 in Japan on 02 Dec 2021 21:37 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 1299732
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 24.07 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.561 , 138.9954
Event Date: 02 Dec 2021 21:37 UTC
03 Dec 2021 06:37 Local
Exposed Population:
38.3 million in 100km
Inserted at: 02 Dec 2021 21:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us6000g8k3 Scaled population (vector) 7.47  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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Latest media headlines

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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),