M 5.9 in Bonin Islands, Japan Region on 21 Jun 2022 07:14 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 1327490
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.9425 , 142.814
Event Date: 21 Jun 2022 07:14 UTC
21 Jun 2022 17:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jun 2022 07:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hixl Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Magnitude 6 Earthquake Strikes Japan's Bonin Islands2022-06-21T12:14+0200.

Following the earthquake, Japan forecast a slight change in sea level...
Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Japan's Bonin Islands2022-06-21T11:13+0200.

A magnitude 6 earthquake struck the Bonin Islands in Japan (Representative image) TOKYO: Japan forecast a slight change in sea level on Tuesday after a magnitude 6 earthquake struck the Bonin Islands , far to the southeast of the country's
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Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Bonin Islands - EMSC (Reuters) - A magn ... 2022-06-21T10:35+0200.

(Reuters) – A magnitude 6 earthquake struck the Bonin Islands, Japan region on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 60 km (37 miles), the EMSC said. (Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath
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(TAP) - Japan forecast a slight change in sea level on Tuesday after a ... 2022-06-21T10:33+0200.

Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Japan's Bonin Islands (TAP) - Japan forecast a slight change in sea level on Tuesday after a magnitude 6 earthquake struck the Bonin Islands, far to the southeast of the country's main islands. The quake was
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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), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),