Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 20 Jun 2013 01:49 UTC

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M 5 in Japan on 20 Jun 2013 01:49 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 1000238
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	51.2 Km
Lat/Lon:	40.8199 , 142.4181
Event Date:	20 Jun 2013 01:49 UTC 20 Jun 2013 10:49 Local
Exposed Population:	450167 people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 Jun 2013 04:13 UTC

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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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 463 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

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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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