Overall Green Earthquake in Japan from 02 Mar 2014 20:11 UTC to 20:11

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M 6.6 in Japan from 02 Mar 2014 20:11 UTC to 20:11

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1026916
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Depth:	118 Km
Lat/Lon:	27.4 , 127.4
Event Date:	02 Mar 2014 20:11 UTC 03 Mar 2014 04:11 Local
Exposed Population:	About 35604 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Mar 2014 20:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
USGS	n.a		1		0.5
at00n1ts2y	Scaled population (vector)	n.a	Max wave scenario	0m
	C1 earthquake	n.a	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (81), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (2), (3), INFORM (4), USGS (2),

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