Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 19 Apr 2017 17:13 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 19 Apr 2017 17:13 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 1110679
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	22.21 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.7764 , 140.6352
Event Date:	19 Apr 2017 17:13 UTC 20 Apr 2017 02:13 Local
Exposed Population:	4500000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	19 Apr 2017 18:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008j1z	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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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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