M 4.9 in China on 19 Oct 2015 07:20 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 1069567
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 6.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.8117 , 122.0158
Event Date: 19 Oct 2015 07:20 UTC
19 Oct 2015 15:20 Local
Exposed Population:
9565267 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Oct 2015 07:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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),