Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 17 Apr 2014 22:53 UTC

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M 4.8 in Japan on 17 Apr 2014 22:53 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 1029980
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	52.6 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.1069 , 139.9349
Event Date:	17 Apr 2014 22:53 UTC 18 Apr 2014 07:53 Local
Exposed Population:	39921600 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Apr 2014 23:22 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
	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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