Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 30 Dec 2013 09:44 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 30 Dec 2013 09:44 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 1021776
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	53.84 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.1934 , 141.2992
Event Date:	30 Dec 2013 09:44 UTC 30 Dec 2013 18:44 Local
Exposed Population:	2379550 people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 Dec 2013 10:29 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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