M 5.5 in China on 12 May 2016 04:29 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 1086160
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.6819 , 122.0393
Event Date: 12 May 2016 04:29 UTC
12 May 2016 12:29 Local
Exposed Population: 9390000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2016 04:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 518 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

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Scientists from University of Saarland and University of ...Mon, 16 May 2016 03:36:00 +0200.

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114 temasMon, 16 May 2016 02:03:00 +0200.

El conjunto de Cristián Arán logró lo mínimo que se merecía tras un gran semestre. El Chile 2 es celeste y al Capo de Provincia irá por un nuevo desafío internacional. Era lo mínimo que se merecía. O’Higgins, no sin sufrir un poco, le puso
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حين " برمت العدرا " ! - نبيل بومنصفMon, 16 May 2016 00:46:00 +0200.

قد نخرج من جولات الانتخابات البلدية والاختيارية في نهاية أيار الحالي بما يتجاوز رسم مشهد سياسي مختلف الى ما هو اشد وقعا عبر " نفخ " لا سابق له في مفهوم التنافسات الانتخابية ومعاركها التقليدية . من دون إثقال الضمير باستنتاجات مضخمة ، ترانا ن
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),