M 4.7 in China on 03 Aug 2014 14:28 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 1037110
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 30.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.14 , 103.45
Event Date: 03 Aug 2014 14:28 UTC
03 Aug 2014 22:28 Local
Exposed Population:
6721701 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2014 20:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1741 | About casualties: 389 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima: Dekontaminiertes Wasser soll ins Meer fließenThu, 07 Aug 2014 13:46:00 +0200.

. Der Betreiber des havarierten japanischen Atomkraftwerks Fukushima I will Grundwasser aus der Atomruine in den Pazifischen Ozean ableiten. Zuvor würden nahezu alle radioaktiven Stoffe aus dem Wasser entfernt, versicherte TEPCO heute. Der
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Indonesian girl found 10 years after tsunamiThu, 07 Aug 2014 13:44:00 +0200.

Raudhatul Jannah, who was four when she was swept away by tsunami waters from her home in West Aceh in 2004, has been reunited with her family.
China Voice: Disaster relief a military priority in peacetimeThu, 07 Aug 2014 13:42:00 +0200.

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The military is not established solely for the purpose of conducting wars, at least not in China. In a nation with frequent earthquakes and floods, disaster relief has become a major priority for the Chinese Peop
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Chine : une femme dégagée des décombres trois jours après le séismeThu, 07 Aug 2014 13:38:00 +0200.

LUDIAN, province du Yunnan, 7 août (Xinhua) -- Des secouristes de l'Armée populaire de libération (APL) de Chine ont dégagé une survivante des décombres, trois jours après le tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,5 qui a secoué la province du
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),