M 5.7 in Japan on 05 Oct 2021 17:46 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 1288730
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 44.77 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.076 , 142.2531
Event Date: 05 Oct 2021 17:46 UTC
06 Oct 2021 02:46 Local
Exposed Population: 210000 people in MMI
680 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 16:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000frzg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.57  
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

Articles: 392 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

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Ted Bowman, design engineer with Tsunami Products, installs a unit in homeowner Don Johnson’s backyard in Benicia, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Haven Daily) BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water ou
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Machines that make water from air are here, selling in parched Califor ... 2021-10-09T15:26+0200.

Ted Bowman, design engineer with Tsunami Products, installs a unit in homeowner Don Johnson’s backyard in Benicia, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Haven Daily) BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water ou
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In dry California, some buy units that make water from air2021-10-09T15:12+0200.

Ted Bowman, design engineer with Tsunami Products, installs a unit in homeowner Don Johnson’s backyard in Benicia, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021. The recent invention can make water out of the air and in parched California, some homeowners are alr
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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),