Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 21 Apr 2014 21:22 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 21 Apr 2014 21:22 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 1030294
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	16.34 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.5699 , 141.0879
Event Date:	21 Apr 2014 21:22 UTC 22 Apr 2014 06:22 Local
Exposed Population:	4391070 people within 100km
Inserted at:	21 Apr 2014 22:08 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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