M 4.7 in China on 07 Mar 2017 16:22 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 1107244
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 13.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.6582 , 84.9521
Event Date: 07 Mar 2017 16:22 UTC
08 Mar 2017 00:22 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Mar 2017 20:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100087hb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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.
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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),