M 5.7 in China on 15 Feb 2020 11:00 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 1206646
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8442 , 121.5392
Event Date: 15 Feb 2020 11:00 UTC
15 Feb 2020 19:00 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
3540000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2020 11:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007qtx Scaled population (raster) 0.7  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Coronavirus Exposes Auto Industry’s Lack Of Plan BTue, 18 Feb 2020 20:12:00 +0100.

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USA travel adviceMon, 17 Feb 2020 18:14:00 +0100.

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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),