Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 22 Mar 2014 13:38 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 22 Mar 2014 13:38 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 1028084
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	36.85 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.4192 , 142.5059
Event Date:	22 Mar 2014 13:38 UTC 22 Mar 2014 23:38 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	22 Mar 2014 20:08 UTC

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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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