Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 12 Jul 2016 18:53 UTC

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M 4.5 in Japan on 12 Jul 2016 18:53 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 1089871
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	15.5 Km
Lat/Lon:	42.3739 , 139.2139
Event Date:	12 Jul 2016 18:53 UTC 13 Jul 2016 03:53 Local
Exposed Population:	About 86678 people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 Jul 2016 21:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000631l	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 433 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

¿Le tenemos demasiado miedo a la radiación nuclear?Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:24:00 +0200.

Le tenemos demasiado miedo a la radiación nuclear? 16/07/2016 - 12:11:28 BBC.- Pasaron más de 5 años desde que un terremoto y un tsunami en la costa de Japón causaron una enorme fuga de material radiactivo en los océanos del mundo. Los trab

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موسيقى غابة الأسرارSat, 16 Jul 2016 17:47:00 +0200.

لا نهاية لطاقة الحياة الموجهة من أجل الاستمرار في العيش مهما استفحل الشر وجثم شبح الموت على شوارعنا وبيوتنا حتى صارت لا فتات النعي السوداء أكثر من النجوم. لكن الهجمة العمياء الشرسة كانت على غابة أسرار الحياة، ونحن عميان كذلك بحيث أي شيء نعر

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¿Le tenemos demasiado miedo a la radiación nuclear?Sat, 16 Jul 2016 13:36:00 +0200.

Pasaron más de 5 años desde que un terremoto y un tsunami en la costa de Japón causaron una enorme fuga de material radiactivo en los océanos del mundo. Los trabajadores lucharon para evitar un cataclismo en la planta nuclear de Fukushima y

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¿Le tenemos demasiado miedo a la radiación nuclear?Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:33:00 +0200.

Image copyright Tokyo Electric Power Co Image caption Compartir Escena tras la explosión en la planta Daiichi en Fukushima, Japóon, en marzo 2011. Pasaron más de 5 años desde que un terremoto y un tsunami en la costa de Japón causaron una e

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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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