Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 14 Dec 2013 04:06 UTC

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M 5.4 in Japan on 14 Dec 2013 04:06 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 1020137
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	36.02 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.621 , 140.6862
Event Date:	14 Dec 2013 04:06 UTC 14 Dec 2013 13:06 Local
Exposed Population:	21463080 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Dec 2013 04:25 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.6		0.6
	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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