M 6 in Japan from 13 May 2021 23:58 UTC to 23:58

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1268632
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 43.08 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7173 , 141.7494
Event Date: 13 May 2021 23:58 UTC
14 May 2021 08:58 Local
Exposed Population: 1370000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 May 2021 00:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e2xd 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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6.1-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture 5/17/2021 3:14:00 PM.

Baku, May 17, AZERTAC An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck off Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Xinhua reports. The temblor occurred at
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Séisme de magnitude 6,1 au large de la préfecture de Hokkaido 5/16/2021 11:31:00 AM.

Un séisme de magnitude 6,1 sur l'échelle de Richter a eu lieu dimanche 16 mai au large de la préfecture de Hokkaido, au Japon, selon l'Agence météorologique japonaise (JMA). La secousse s'est produite vers 12h24 heure locale, avec un épicen
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),