Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 24 Jun 2013 23:12 UTC

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M 4.7 in Japan on 24 Jun 2013 23:12 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 1000282
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	79.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	41.6156 , 141.827
Event Date:	24 Jun 2013 23:12 UTC 25 Jun 2013 08:12 Local
Exposed Population:	499701 people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Jun 2013 01:35 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	-1		-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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