Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 05 Jan 2014 14:28 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 05 Jan 2014 14:28 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 1022330
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	27.49 Km
Lat/Lon:	33.4273 , 139.5075
Event Date:	05 Jan 2014 14:28 UTC 05 Jan 2014 23:28 Local
Exposed Population:	About 16890 people within 100km
Inserted at:	05 Jan 2014 17:59 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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Latest media headlines

Japan plans nuclear reactor meltdown to help prevent another Fukushima.. 1/9/2014 2:12:00 PM.

Nuclear scientists in Japan are planning a controlled reactor meltdown in the hope of learning how to prevent disasters like the one at the Fukushima power plant in 2011, according to local media reports.

Japan scientists to create controlled nuclear meltdown 1/9/2014 1:49:00 PM.

A team of nuclear scientists in Japan said Thursday they plan to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters like that at Fukushima

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Japón recreará la fusión nuclear de Fukushima para entender mejor el d.. 1/9/2014 12:46:00 PM.

La prueba busca aportar datos para comprender mejor lo que sucedió en las unidades afectadas, principalmente en relación a cuándo y como se fundieron las barras de combustible en su interior

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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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