M 4.6 in Japan on 06 Dec 2021 08:09 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 1300229
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 56.79 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.6349 , 141.3794
Event Date: 06 Dec 2021 08:09 UTC
06 Dec 2021 17:09 Local
Exposed Population:
3.2 million in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2021 09:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g9f9 Scaled population (vector) 5.83  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),