Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 17 Mar 2022 10:43 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 17 Mar 2022 10:43 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 1314184
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	56.12 Km
Lat/Lon:	37.8203 , 141.7918
Event Date:	17 Mar 2022 10:43 UTC 17 Mar 2022 19:43 Local
Exposed Population:	1.8 million in 100km
Inserted at:	17 Mar 2022 11:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000h5cf	Scaled population (vector)	5.32
	C1 earthquake	0.73
	C2 earthquake	-0.22
	Country Vulnerability	-0.71
	INFORM_normalised	0.57

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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