M 4.9 in Japan on 04 Dec 2021 15:08 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 1299995
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.3255 , 129.1348
Event Date: 04 Dec 2021 15:08 UTC
05 Dec 2021 00:08 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2021 15:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g913 Scaled population (vector) 2.75  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Un séisme de magnitude 5 sur l’échelle de Richter frappe le nord-est d.. 12/8/2021 10:48:00 AM.

- L'Agence météorologique japonaise a déclaré que le séisme ne s'est pas accompagné d'un tsunami. Japan. AA / Tokyo. Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 5 sur l’échelle de Richter a frappé, mercredi, le nord-est de la préfecture de Fuku
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),