Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 30 Mar 2014 11:12 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 30 Mar 2014 11:12 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 1028571
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	48.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.2595 , 142.1721
Event Date:	30 Mar 2014 11:12 UTC 30 Mar 2014 20:12 Local
Exposed Population:	About 17793 people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 Mar 2014 11:47 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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Latest media headlines

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Evacuees return to Japan's nuclear zone 4/2/2014 4:24:00 AM.

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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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