Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 11 Jan 2014 18:35 UTC

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M 5 in Japan on 11 Jan 2014 18:35 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 1023035
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	35.97 Km
Lat/Lon:	25.6833 , 126.2338
Event Date:	11 Jan 2014 18:35 UTC 12 Jan 2014 02:35 Local
Exposed Population:	About 10467 people within 100km
Inserted at:	11 Jan 2014 19:14 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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