M 4.5 in China on 15 Feb 2016 05:22 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 1080644
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10.72 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0244 , 121.0261
Event Date: 15 Feb 2016 05:22 UTC
15 Feb 2016 13:22 Local
Exposed Population:
7109355 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Feb 2016 05:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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: 528 | About casualties: 48 | Last hour: 0

Another body found under Taiwan quake debrisFri, 19 Feb 2016 01:50:00 +0100.

Five days after the search officially ended, the body of a 32-year-old woman was found Thursday, 2.6 meters under the ground of a building that collapsed in an earthquake 12 days ago in Tainan, Taiwan. Lin Han-fei was not a resident of the
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Retiran montaña rusa Tsunami de Isla San MarcosFri, 19 Feb 2016 01:02:00 +0100.

Confirma el secretario de Infraestructura y Comunicaci�n, Miguel �ngel Romero Navarro, el retiro de la monta�a rusa �Tsunami�, adquirida por la administraci�n de Luis Armando Reynoso Femat y que fuera instalada en la Isla San Marcos, de la
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Lung cancer claims author Yuko Tsushima, daughter of Osamu Dazai, at 6 ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:15:00 +0100.

Award-winning Japanese author Yuko Tsushima, the second daughter of renowned novelist Osamu Dazai, died of lung cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Thursday. She was 68. Born in Mitaka, western Tokyo, in March 1947, she made her debut as a writer
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توقعت هجمات سبتمبر وتسونامي و"داعش".. هل تتحقق توقعات "بابا فانغا" بنه ... Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:19:00 +0100.

دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة (CNN)-- تناقل مستخدمو مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي قصة بابا فانغا، التي تنبأت بهجمات 11 سبتمبر/أيلول عام 2001، وتسونامي اندونيسيا عام 2004، وفقاً لما تناقله المستخدمون، الذين بدأوا التعليق حول تنبؤها بقدوم "داعش" و"
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),