M 4.5 in China on 15 May 2017 16:20 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 1113069
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 14.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.0246 , 99.0326
Event Date: 15 May 2017 16:20 UTC
16 May 2017 00:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 98000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2017 17:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ska Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),