Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 25 May 2015 05:28 UTC

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M 5.3 in Japan on 25 May 2015 05:28 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 1055778
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.9942 , 139.6415
Event Date:	25 May 2015 05:28 UTC 25 May 2015 14:28 Local
Exposed Population:	40745984 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 May 2015 05:51 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
	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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