Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 27 May 2017 11:59 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 27 May 2017 11:59 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 1113913
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	1.64 Km
Lat/Lon:	36.8275 , 138.3968
Event Date:	27 May 2017 11:59 UTC 27 May 2017 20:59 Local
Exposed Population:	3890000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	27 May 2017 12:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008vsc	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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