M 6 in Japan on 09 Dec 2021 02:05 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 1300656
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 7 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.4428 , 129.3791
Event Date: 09 Dec 2021 02:05 UTC
09 Dec 2021 11:05 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI V
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 10 Dec 2021 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gaq5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),