M 4.6 in China on 18 May 2016 16:57 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 1086524
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 38.48 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.0719 , 95.0174
Event Date: 18 May 2016 16:57 UTC
19 May 2016 00:57 Local
Exposed Population:
139135 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2016 22:30 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),