Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 18 Mar 2017 01:33 UTC

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M 4.9 in Japan on 18 Mar 2017 01:33 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 1108095
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	17.37 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.6002 , 143.881
Event Date:	18 Mar 2017 01:33 UTC 18 Mar 2017 11:33 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Mar 2017 00:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008sx9	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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