M 5.9 in Japan on 26 Dec 2021 08:26 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 1303468
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.2257 , 125.5917
Event Date: 26 Dec 2021 08:26 UTC
26 Dec 2021 16:26 Local
Exposed Population: 50 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 26 Dec 2021 08:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfd9 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),