Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 25 Dec 2015 16:42 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 25 Dec 2015 16:42 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 1076973
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	42.45 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.7652 , 141.3475
Event Date:	25 Dec 2015 16:42 UTC 26 Dec 2015 01:42 Local
Exposed Population:	2281786 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Dec 2015 17:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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