Overall Green Earthquake alert in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 27 Dec 2021 00:11 UTC

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M 5.2 in Volcano Islands, Japan Region on 27 Dec 2021 00:11 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 1303572
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.2M
Depth:	109.41 Km
Lat/Lon:	22.7193 , 143.1298
Event Date:	27 Dec 2021 00:11 UTC 27 Dec 2021 10:11 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	27 Dec 2021 04:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000gfj3	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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