Overall Green Earthquake alert in Kyushu, Japan on 13 Aug 2014 22:51 UTC

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M 4.5 in Kyushu, Japan on 13 Aug 2014 22:51 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 1037758
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	87.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	33.8 , 131.8
Event Date:	13 Aug 2014 22:51 UTC 14 Aug 2014 07:51 Local
Exposed Population:	6594016 people within 100km
Inserted at:	13 Aug 2014 23:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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