Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 21 Jan 2017 18:11 UTC

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M 4.8 in Japan on 21 Jan 2017 18:11 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 1103756
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	41.1413 , 142.3412
Event Date:	21 Jan 2017 18:11 UTC 22 Jan 2017 03:11 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Jan 2017 21:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007un7	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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