M 4.7 in China on 17 Feb 2013 01:32 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 122753
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 8.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.2908 , 121.428
Event Date: 17 Feb 2013 01:32 UTC
17 Feb 2013 09:32 Local
Exposed Population:
14020000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2013 02:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000f8tb 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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Meteo assessment
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),