Overall Orange Earthquake alert in Japan on 15 Apr 2016 16:25 UTC

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M 7 in Japan on 15 Apr 2016 16:25 UTC

2016-04-15 16:47 message from NTWC

Key information extracted from original GTS message :

Evaluation

There is no TSUNAMI danger for the areas listed above
Based on earthquake information and historic TSUNAMI records the earthquake was not sufficient to generate a tsunami
An earthquake has occurred with parameters listed below

Measurements Levels

SOURCE	GAUGE LOCATION	LAT	LON	TIME (UTC)	HEIGHT (m)	PERIOD (min)

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