M 4.8 in China on 26 Jan 2016 16:05 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 1079359
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 21.8119 , 121.3042
Event Date: 26 Jan 2016 16:05 UTC
27 Jan 2016 00:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 81792 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2016 21:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Exposed population

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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),