Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 21 May 2025 11:32 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 21 May 2025 11:32 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 1482709
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	53.5 Km
Lat/Lon:	31.2952 , 141.0092
Event Date:	21 May 2025 11:32 UTC 21 May 2025 20:32 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people affected in MMI&>=II
Inserted at:	21 May 2025 12:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000q0in	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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