Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 16 Apr 2016 05:27 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 16 Apr 2016 05:27 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 1084511
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	1.27 Km
Lat/Lon:	32.6604 , 130.6393
Event Date:	16 Apr 2016 05:27 UTC 16 Apr 2016 14:27 Local
Exposed Population:	6061110 people within 100km
Inserted at:	16 Apr 2016 07:30 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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