Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 29 Oct 2018 01:27 UTC

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M 5.5 in Japan on 29 Oct 2018 01:27 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 1160343
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.5M
Depth:	91.91 Km
Lat/Lon:	31.6008 , 140.3073
Event Date:	29 Oct 2018 01:27 UTC 29 Oct 2018 10:27 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	29 Oct 2018 01:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us1000hiby	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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