Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 02 Feb 2014 13:48 UTC

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M 4.5 in Japan on 02 Feb 2014 13:48 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 1025258
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	461.65 Km
Lat/Lon:	29.9314 , 138.5539
Event Date:	02 Feb 2014 13:48 UTC 02 Feb 2014 22:48 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2014 16:44 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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