Overall Green Earthquake alert in Southwestern Ryukyu Isl., Japan on 16 Dec 2022 03:08 UTC

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M 4.5 in Southwestern Ryukyu Isl., Japan on 16 Dec 2022 03:08 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 1350686
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	58.021 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.5154 , 125.0869
Event Date:	16 Dec 2022 03:08 UTC 16 Dec 2022 11:08 Local
Exposed Population:	40 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	16 Dec 2022 04:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000j9mc	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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