Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 17 May 2018 18:42 UTC

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M 5.8 in Japan on 17 May 2018 18:42 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 1143412
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.8M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	42.6758 , 145.6026
Event Date:	17 May 2018 18:42 UTC 18 May 2018 04:42 Local
Exposed Population:	About 64000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 May 2018 19:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000e7fh	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.57

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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