Overall Green Earthquake alert in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 17 Jan 2017 07:46 UTC

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M 4.7 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 17 Jan 2017 07:46 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 1103402
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	22.0455 , 143.7031
Event Date:	17 Jan 2017 07:46 UTC 17 Jan 2017 17:46 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	17 Jan 2017 08:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
us10007tm6	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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