Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 17 Sep 2015 21:42 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 17 Sep 2015 21:42 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 1065981
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	55.02 Km
Lat/Lon:	41.3853 , 142.0079
Event Date:	17 Sep 2015 21:42 UTC 18 Sep 2015 06:42 Local
Exposed Population:	198642 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Sep 2015 22:09 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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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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