Overall Green Earthquake in Japan from 02 Dec 2005 10:19 UTC to 10:19

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M 4.7 in Japan from 02 Dec 2005 10:19 UTC to 10:19

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 15199
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	24.57 , 141.45
Event Date:	02 Dec 2005 10:19 UTC 02 Dec 2005 19:19 Local
Exposed Population:	about 600 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Dec 2005 16:47 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
EMSC	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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Latest media headlines

Strong quake hits Japan (Capital News 9) 12/17/2005 4:40:09 PM.

There appear to be few injuries from a strong earthquake that shook northern Japan early Saturday. So far, there are reports of only two people being hurt in the 6.2 magnitude quake. An elderly woman was hospitalized after falling and hitti

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Strong quake hits Japan (Capital News 9) 12/17/2005 2:55:14 PM.

There appear to be few injuries from a strong earthquake that shook northern Japan early Saturday. So far there are reports of only two people being hurt in the 6.2 magnitude quake. An elderly woman was hospitalized after falling and hittin

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6.9 Quake Rocks Japan (CBS News) 12/17/2005 1:03:32 PM.

A strong earthquake shook northern Japan early Tuesday and Japan's Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings. The magnitude 6.9 quake hit at 6:39 a.m. (2139 GMT) and was centered off the coast of Sanriku in northern Japan.

Strong earthquake rocks northern Japan (KBCI Boise) 12/17/2005 10:08:38 AM.

TOKYO There appear to be few injuries from a strong earthquake that shook northern Japan early Saturday. So far there are reports of only two people being hurt in the six-point-two magnitude quake. An elderly woman was hospitalized after fa

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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 (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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