Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 23 Nov 2017 18:02 UTC

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M 5.5 in Japan on 23 Nov 2017 18:02 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 1127229
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	27.1448 , 130.375
Event Date:	23 Nov 2017 18:02 UTC 24 Nov 2017 03:02 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Nov 2017 21:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Japan)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us2000btkn	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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