Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 03 Mar 2016 07:11 UTC

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M 5.2 in Japan on 03 Mar 2016 07:11 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 1081765
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	53.43 Km
Lat/Lon:	31.746 , 131.4086
Event Date:	03 Mar 2016 07:11 UTC 03 Mar 2016 16:11 Local
Exposed Population:	2444211 people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Mar 2016 07:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
	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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