M 5.9 in China on 08 Dec 2016 05:15 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 1100271
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 13.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.8159 , 86.3035
Event Date: 08 Dec 2016 05:15 UTC
08 Dec 2016 13:15 Local
Exposed Population: 950000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2016 05:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007z2r 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),