M 4.9 in China on 13 Oct 2015 11:49 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 1068972
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 44.73 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.4596 , 121.6821
Event Date: 13 Oct 2015 11:49 UTC
13 Oct 2015 19:49 Local
Exposed Population:
734413 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Oct 2015 12:06 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 488 | About casualties: 26 | Last hour: 0

Philippines warns Typhoon Koppu could linger for daysSat, 17 Oct 2015 11:52:00 +0200.

MANILA: Philippine authorities on Saturday warned that a powerful typhoon will likely linger over the country for almost three days, bringing prolonged heavy rain, possible floods and sparking storm surges. Typhoon Koppu, possibly the secon
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Philippines warns Typhoon Koppu could linger for daysSat, 17 Oct 2015 10:02:00 +0200.

MANILA – Philippine authorities on Saturday warned that a powerful typhoon will likely linger over the country for almost three days, bringing heavy rains, possible floods and sparking storm surges. Typhoon Koppu, possibly the second most p
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Philippines warns Severe Typhoon Koppu could linger over main island o ... Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:01:00 +0200.

Philippines authorities have warned that Severe Typhoon Koppu will likely linger over the country for almost three days, bringing up to 600 millimetres of prolonged rain, floods and 2-metre storm surges. Civil defence officials warned that
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Philippines warns Severe Typhoon Koppu could linger over main island o ... Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:58:00 +0200.

Philippines authorities have warned that Severe Typhoon Koppu will likely linger over the country for almost three days, bringing up to 600 millimetres of prolonged rain, floods and 2-metre storm surges. Civil defence officials warned that
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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),