Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 18 Jul 2013 17:05 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 18 Jul 2013 17:05 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 1000549
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	53.7 Km
Lat/Lon:	38.5452 , 141.534
Event Date:	18 Jul 2013 17:05 UTC 19 Jul 2013 02:05 Local
Exposed Population:	3008967 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Jul 2013 23:11 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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