M 4.9 in China on 10 Sep 2016 00:46 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 1093639
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.1833 , 82.638
Event Date: 10 Sep 2016 00:46 UTC
10 Sep 2016 08:46 Local
Exposed Population:
112363 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Sep 2016 03:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006nhy 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),