Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 27 Mar 2017 22:31 UTC

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M 5.6 in Japan on 27 Mar 2017 22:31 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 1108813
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	42.0328 , 138.5214
Event Date:	27 Mar 2017 22:31 UTC 28 Mar 2017 07:31 Local
Exposed Population:	Few people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 Mar 2017 22:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008v4y	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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