Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 02 Dec 2021 08:24 UTC

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M 4.8 in Japan on 02 Dec 2021 08:24 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 1299645
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	51.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.7076 , 141.8191
Event Date:	02 Dec 2021 08:24 UTC 02 Dec 2021 17:24 Local
Exposed Population:	730 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	02 Dec 2021 08:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000g8dw	Scaled population (vector)	4.92
	C1 earthquake	0.73
	C2 earthquake	-0.22
	Country Vulnerability	-0.71
	INFORM_normalised	0.57

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