M 5.5 in China on 19 Jan 2016 02:13 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 1078830
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 25.55 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.8801 , 121.3149
Event Date: 19 Jan 2016 02:13 UTC
19 Jan 2016 10:13 Local
Exposed Population:
1784056 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2016 02:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),