Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 02 Jan 2017 16:10 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 02 Jan 2017 16:10 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 1102355
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	38.8986 , 142.8158
Event Date:	02 Jan 2017 16:10 UTC 03 Jan 2017 02:10 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Jan 2017 19:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007p9y	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Los desastres naturales causaron daños por 175,000 millones de dólares.. 1/6/2017 1:26:00 PM.

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2016 fue el año más costoso en desastres naturales desde 2012 1/5/2017 1:43:00 AM.

Las catástrofes naturales dejaron pérdidas de 175.000 millones de dólares; Casi el 30%, es decir, unos 50.000 millones de dólares estaban aseguradas; El terremoto que sufrió Japón en abril fue el desastre natural más costoso El 2016 fue

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2016 really was the year of the flood in the U.S.: In total, 19 separate floods swamped the nation last year, the most in one single year since records began in 1980. This is according to an analysis by , a global reinsurance firm. Munic

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