M 4.9 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 05 Dec 2021 09:17 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 1300084
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 27.74 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.429 , 143.0908
Event Date: 05 Dec 2021 09:17 UTC
05 Dec 2021 19:17 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2021 10:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g98t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),