M 5.2 in China on 23 Feb 2016 00:33 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 1081151
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.0762 , 94.9579
Event Date: 23 Feb 2016 00:33 UTC
23 Feb 2016 08:33 Local
Exposed Population:
152674 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2016 00:57 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 557 | About casualties: 35 | Last hour: 0

Tsunami cometh: 1.8 million trees to be planted in CharsaddaSat, 27 Feb 2016 00:14:00 +0100.

He issued this statement after a tree was planted at a civil court in Shabqadar by additional sessions judge Asad Ali. Rehman said plantation would take place over 1,800 hectares of land in the district. He added a farmer with a hectare of
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Crime › 3 ex-TEPCO execs to be indicted Monday over Fukushima nuclear ... Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:05:00 +0100.

TOKYO. Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) will be indicted Monday for allegedly failing to take measures to prevent the tsunami-triggered crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, a lawyer in charge of the cas
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Chile ha aprendido muchas lecciones desde el terremoto 2010, según exp ... Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:58:00 +0100.

El terremoto de magnitud 8,8 en la escala de Richter que azotó Chile en 2010 puso en duda la capacidad del país austral para hacer frente a una emergencia, y seis años después los expertos aseguran que se han aprendido muchas lecciones. "Ch
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Chile ha aprendido muchas lecciones desde el terremoto ...Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:52:00 +0100.

El terremoto de magnitud 8,8 en la escala de Richter que azotó Chile en 2010 puso en duda la capacidad del país austral para hacer frente a una emergencia, y seis años después los expertos aseguran que se han aprendido muchas lecciones. "Ch
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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),