Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 17 Mar 2016 18:59 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 17 Mar 2016 18:59 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 1082690
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	47.25 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.4356 , 142.2475
Event Date:	17 Mar 2016 18:59 UTC 18 Mar 2016 03:59 Local
Exposed Population:	920147 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Mar 2016 20:21 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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