M 4.7 in China on 11 May 2015 23:43 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 1054559
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 15.56 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9013 , 121.5386
Event Date: 11 May 2015 23:43 UTC
12 May 2015 07:43 Local
Exposed Population:
4021002 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2015 00:09 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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Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1673 | About casualties: 136 | Last hour: 0

NASA: El terremoto de Nepal desplazó el Himalaya hasta 6 metrosFri, 15 May 2015 23:21:00 +0200.

Las observaciones de las agencias espaciales NASA y ESA han registrado el movimiento de unos metros de la cordillera del Himalaya, después del devastador terremoto que sacudió a Nepal el 25 de abril. Según informa el portal Business Inside
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US team pulls woman from collapsed 4-story building in NepalFri, 15 May 2015 22:38:00 +0200.

LOS ANGELES (AP) U.S. rescuers from California and Virginia helped pull a 41-year-old woman from a four-story building that collapsed in this week's 7.3 earthquake in Nepal. Tuesday's temblor was an aftershock to the April 25 earthquake tha
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Unused Chinooks to return from NepalFri, 15 May 2015 22:25:00 +0200.

The CH47 Chinook helicopters left the UK earlier this month. Three RAF Chinook helicopters sent to Nepal to help the aid effort in the country are to return to the UK having not been used, the government has said. The CH47 Chinooks left the
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US team pulls woman from collapsed 4-story building in NepalFri, 15 May 2015 22:19:00 +0200.

Carol Han, a spokeswoman for USAID’s Nepal response management team, said its Disaster Assistance Response Team included 57 urban search and rescuers each from Los Angeles County and Fairfax County, Virginia. Members flew into Singati, a m
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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),