M 4.8 in China on 16 Feb 2016 04:04 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 1080699
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0176 , 121.0442
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 04:04 UTC
16 Feb 2016 12:04 Local
Exposed Population:
7109355 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2016 04:24 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
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 497 | About casualties: 50 | Last hour: 0

Researchers tap GPS for faster tsunami warningsSat, 20 Feb 2016 02:50:00 +0100.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, believe that global position system (GPS) instruments could provide more rapid and more accurate warning of a tsunami. In a paper to be published in the jour
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Afrique: Hausse des décès d'enfants en mer - Les agences de l'ONU appe ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 01:15:00 +0100.

communiqué de presse. Genève, 16 février 2016 - En moyenne, deux enfants par jour sont morts noyés depuis septembre 2015 - durant la tentative de traversée de l'est de la Méditerranée par leurs familles - et le nombre de décès d'enfants con
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Afrique: Face aux décès d'enfants migrants en Méditerranée, des agence ... Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:44:00 +0100.

Face à l'augmentation des décès d'enfants migrants en mer Méditerranée, plusieurs agences de l'ONU ont appelé vendredi à renforcer la sécurité des personnes tentant de gagner l'Europe par la mer et à mettre en place des voies d'accès légale
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Barco de la Paz llega a Valparaíso para conmemorar nuevo aniversario d ... Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:27:00 +0100.

Con el fin de conmemorar los seis años del terremoto y tsunami que afectó al centro sur del país el 27 de febrero de 2010, llegará este viernes al puerto de Valparaíso el Barco de la Paz, en el marco del viaje global 90 de la embarcación. E
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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),