M 7 in Japan on 20 Mar 2021 09:09 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 1261563
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 54 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.4752 , 141.6069
Event Date: 20 Mar 2021 09:09 UTC
20 Mar 2021 18:09 Local
Exposed Population: About 16000 people in MMI
2630000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2021 09:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0 0.1
us7000dl6y Scaled population (raster) 3.46 Max wave alert 0.13m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.57      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Japan calls for Renesas help from equipment makers at home and oversea.. 3/24/2021 8:55:00 AM.

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Japan calls for Renesas help from equipment makers at home and oversea.. 3/24/2021 8:07:00 AM.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese government bureaucrats have called and emailed equipment makers in Japan and overseas to request they provide parts and machinery to help Renesas Electronics Corp, restore chip production at its fire-damaged plant
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Japan calls for Renesas help from equipment makers at home and oversea.. 3/24/2021 7:52:00 AM.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese government bureaucrats have called and emailed equipment makers in Japan and overseas to request they provide parts and machinery to help Renesas Electronics Corp, restore chip production at its fire-damaged plant
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Japan calls for Renesas help from equipment makers at home and oversea.. 3/24/2021 7:51:00 AM.

Japanese government bureaucrats have called and emailed equipment makers in Japan and overseas to request they provide parts and machinery to help Renesas Electronics Corp, restore chip production at its fire-damaged plant. FILE PHOTO: R
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),