Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 18 Sep 2022 02:09 UTC

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M 4.8 in Japan on 18 Sep 2022 02:09 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 1338190
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	46.748 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.8282 , 140.7854
Event Date:	18 Sep 2022 02:09 UTC 18 Sep 2022 11:09 Local
Exposed Population:	17.2 million in 100km
Inserted at:	18 Sep 2022 02:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000i8yp	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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