M 4.7 in China on 02 May 2016 14:29 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 1085556
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 12.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.1635 , 121.7386
Event Date: 02 May 2016 14:29 UTC
02 May 2016 22:29 Local
Exposed Population:
4658178 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 May 2016 17:20 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),