Overall Green Earthquake alert in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 17 Nov 2018 07:40 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 1162523
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	115.25 Km
Lat/Lon:	25.3931 , 141.0321
Event Date:	17 Nov 2018 07:40 UTC 17 Nov 2018 16:40 Local
Exposed Population:	About 500 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Nov 2018 07:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000ht4f	Scaled population (vector)	2.47
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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