M 5.1 in Japan on 20 Dec 2021 16:05 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 1302610
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 44.44 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.3783 , 142.6724
Event Date: 20 Dec 2021 16:05 UTC
21 Dec 2021 01:05 Local
Exposed Population:
680 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Dec 2021 19:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdup Scaled population (vector) 5.55  
  C1 earthquake 0.73  
  C2 earthquake -0.22  
  Country Vulnerability -0.71  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),