Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 26 Dec 2021 19:40 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 26 Dec 2021 19:40 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 1303540
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	69.54 Km
Lat/Lon:	41.9647 , 142.3674
Event Date:	26 Dec 2021 19:40 UTC 27 Dec 2021 04:40 Local
Exposed Population:	230 thousand in 100km
Inserted at:	26 Dec 2021 21:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gfhx	Scaled population (vector)	5.08
	C1 earthquake	0.73
	C2 earthquake	-0.22
	Country Vulnerability	-0.71
	INFORM_normalised	0.57

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