Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 28 Jan 2017 18:28 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 28 Jan 2017 18:28 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 1104291
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	40.2657 , 142.2825
Event Date:	28 Jan 2017 18:28 UTC 29 Jan 2017 03:28 Local
Exposed Population:	400000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	28 Jan 2017 19:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007vyg	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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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