Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 10 Jul 2013 22:09 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 10 Jul 2013 22:09 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 1000446
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	21 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.2623 , 142.1355
Event Date:	10 Jul 2013 22:09 UTC 11 Jul 2013 07:09 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Jul 2013 00:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 335 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Caritas means charity - In Samoan it means AlofaSun, 14 Jul 2013 16:50:00 +0200.

The Secretary General of Caritas Samoa, Tuala Puletini Molesi, was in New Zealand last week meeting with his Aotearoa counterparts. Tuala is a matai title holder of Leauva’a village. Caritas, a Catholic charity organization with 165 member

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Sir Ian Botham to walk across Sri Lanka in NovemberSun, 14 Jul 2013 14:35:00 +0200.

July 14, Colombo: Former cricket captain of England and the cricket commentator Sir Ian Botham announced that he would hold an eight day walk in Sri Lanka in November.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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