M 5.1 in China on 12 Oct 2017 07:52 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 1123651
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.0798 , 94.9571
Event Date: 12 Oct 2017 07:52 UTC
12 Oct 2017 15:52 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2017 08:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000aqmb Scaled population (vector) 5.07  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

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Myanmar: Myanmar: Towards people-centred developmentMon, 16 Oct 2017 07:12:00 +0200.

More investment in disaster counter-measures needed: Vice-President. Vice President U Henry Van Thio stressed the need to evaluate the effectiveness of Myanmar’s existing mechanisms in mitigating the impact of disasters, inviting government
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4 AñosMon, 16 Oct 2017 04:12:00 +0200.

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Tsunami awareness workshop for NorthernersMon, 16 Oct 2017 03:13:00 +0200.

Update: 12:42PM MEMBERS of various communities outside Labasa town will now have an opportunity to learn more of what to do when tsunami hits the country. This is after their community advisory councillors had a tsunami awareness workshop w
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),