Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 01 Apr 2017 20:43 UTC

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M 4.5 in Japan on 01 Apr 2017 20:43 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 1109180
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	16.18 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.3652 , 143.4715
Event Date:	01 Apr 2017 20:43 UTC 02 Apr 2017 06:43 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	01 Apr 2017 21:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008duk	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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