Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 05 Apr 2014 01:16 UTC

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M 5.3 in Japan on 05 Apr 2014 01:16 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 1028977
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	42.56 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.2193 , 142.4378
Event Date:	05 Apr 2014 01:16 UTC 05 Apr 2014 10:16 Local
Exposed Population:	400493 people within 100km
Inserted at:	05 Apr 2014 01:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.2		0.2
	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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