Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 20 May 2017 14:40 UTC

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M 4.9 in Japan on 20 May 2017 14:40 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 1113445
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	20.32 Km
Lat/Lon:	39.9352 , 143.5914
Event Date:	20 May 2017 14:40 UTC 21 May 2017 00:40 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	20 May 2017 14:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10008ttu	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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