Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 04 Nov 2015 13:47 UTC

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M 5 in Japan on 04 Nov 2015 13:47 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 1071137
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	87.76 Km
Lat/Lon:	43.3236 , 146.1256
Event Date:	04 Nov 2015 13:47 UTC 04 Nov 2015 23:47 Local
Exposed Population:	About 88174 people within 100km
Inserted at:	04 Nov 2015 14:09 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-1		-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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