Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 03 Mar 2014 02:27 UTC

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M 5.2 in Japan on 03 Mar 2014 02:27 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 1026925
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	56.45 Km
Lat/Lon:	26.2825 , 127.3325
Event Date:	03 Mar 2014 02:27 UTC 03 Mar 2014 11:27 Local
Exposed Population:	1240632 people within 100km
Inserted at:	03 Mar 2014 02:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.3		0.3
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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