This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

• Earthquake magnitude 5.2M and depth 9.3km
• on 27/06/2012 12:56 UTC
• 680000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usb000arp6 (neicid)

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First Japan Reactor Goes Online Since Nuclear Crisis
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:59:00 +0200   rferl (en)

Japan has put its first nuclear reactor back on line since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

People and organisations: Fukushima Dai-ichi  Yoshihiko Noda 

Fears Accompany Fishermen in Japanese Disaster Region
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:50:00 +0200   nytimes (en)

For the first time since last year’s nuclear catastrophe, commercial fishing has resumed in the waters off Fukushima, raising concerns about radiation contaminating sea produce.

People and organisations: Fukushima Daiichi  Tokyo Electric Power  Tokyo Electric Power 

Protesters block Japan nuclear restart
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:38:00 +0200   thetimes-za (en)

Hundreds of protesters blocked a road outside the front gate of a nuclear power plant in western Japan ahead of the planned reactivation of one of its idled reactors Sunday.

People and organisations: American Electric Power Co  Yoshihiko Noda  Kansai Electric  Kansai Electric 

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: NEIC (4), EMM (1), JRC (20), (1), WMO (1), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1),

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