M 5.9 in China on 20 Jan 2016 17:13 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 1078937
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7195 , 101.5844
Event Date: 20 Jan 2016 17:13 UTC
21 Jan 2016 01:13 Local
Exposed Population: 2610000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2016 17:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 745 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

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Washington, 24 ene (EFE).- Un terremoto de magnitud 7,1 en la escala de Richter sacudió hoy el sur del estado de Alaska (EE.UU.), según registró el Centro Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). El sismo no ha dejado heridos ni daños mayores, i
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),