Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 02 Oct 2016 23:54 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 02 Oct 2016 23:54 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 1095119
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	33.39 Km
Lat/Lon:	34.707 , 142.0822
Event Date:	02 Oct 2016 23:54 UTC 03 Oct 2016 08:54 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Oct 2016 00:54 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10006ul3	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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