M 4.8 in China on 12 Mar 2017 12:21 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 1107611
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 39.59 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.1914 , 103.5868
Event Date: 12 Mar 2017 12:21 UTC
12 Mar 2017 20:21 Local
Exposed Population:
5470000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2017 12:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us100088iq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),