M 4.9 in China on 16 Dec 2012 10:29 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 121476
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 39.9843 , 77.8969
Event Date: 16 Dec 2012 10:29 UTC
16 Dec 2012 18:29 Local
Exposed Population:
560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2012 10:49 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000eanc 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

Articles: 576 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

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TEPCO removes steel beam from pool at contaminated Fukushima plantThu, 20 Dec 2012 09:33:00 +0100.

TOKYO - Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a steel beam from a spent nuclear fuel pool on Thursday at the crip...
Fin du monde : une menace venue de l'espace ?Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:17:00 +0100.

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Net purchases of Japanese stocks by Overseas investors rose last week to the highest since last year’s record earthquake and tsunami, according to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Foreign investors were net buyers of Japanese stocks last week for
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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),