Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 19 Dec 2013 13:55 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 19 Dec 2013 13:55 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 1020695
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	36.47 Km
Lat/Lon:	26.62 , 127.78
Event Date:	19 Dec 2013 13:55 UTC 19 Dec 2013 22:55 Local
Exposed Population:	1241198 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Dec 2013 14:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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