M 5.6 in China on 12 May 2016 03:17 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 1086157
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.6744 , 121.9662
Event Date: 12 May 2016 03:17 UTC
12 May 2016 11:17 Local
Exposed Population: 9720000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2016 03:33 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

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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),