M 4.5 in China on 15 Oct 2015 23:52 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 1069253
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 16.38 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.3131 , 121.7544
Event Date: 15 Oct 2015 23:52 UTC
16 Oct 2015 07:52 Local
Exposed Population:
9787902 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2015 00:27 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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),