Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 08 Oct 2013 11:45 UTC

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M 4.8 in Japan on 08 Oct 2013 11:45 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 1008218
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	21.34 Km
Lat/Lon:	31.68 , 131.73
Event Date:	08 Oct 2013 11:45 UTC 08 Oct 2013 20:45 Local
Exposed Population:	1431740 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Oct 2013 12:23 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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