M 5.1 in Japan on 08 Dec 2021 07:22 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 1300502
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 54.93 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7433 , 141.6215
Event Date: 08 Dec 2021 07:22 UTC
08 Dec 2021 16:22 Local
Exposed Population:
2.1 million in 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2021 07:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gae5 Scaled population (vector) 5.44  
  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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Latest media headlines

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Magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes east of Tokyo 12/12/2021 6:32:00 AM.

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Magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes east of Tokyo - NHK 12/12/2021 6:20:00 AM.

TOKYO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of five struck eastern Japan on Sunday, public broadcaster NHK said. The epicentre of the earthquake was the southern part of Ibaraki prefecture, east of the capital Tokyo
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5.0-magnitude quake strikes Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture 12/12/2021 6:19:00 AM.

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