Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 30 May 2017 06:20 UTC

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M 5 in Japan on 30 May 2017 06:20 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 1114092
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.0M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	24.4056 , 126.2211
Event Date:	30 May 2017 06:20 UTC 30 May 2017 14:20 Local
Exposed Population:	About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 May 2017 06:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008wcm	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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