Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 18 Jan 2021 20:47 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 18 Jan 2021 20:47 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 1252117
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	59.99 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.9863 , 142.0383
Event Date:	18 Jan 2021 20:47 UTC 19 Jan 2021 05:47 Local
Exposed Population:	1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Jan 2021 21:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000d177	Scaled population (vector)	5.75
	C1 earthquake	0.73
	C2 earthquake	-0.22
	Country Vulnerability	-0.71
	INFORM_normalised	0.57

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