M 4.7 in China on 20 Mar 2016 16:54 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 1082859
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.9582 , 93.1727
Event Date: 20 Mar 2016 16:54 UTC
21 Mar 2016 00:54 Local
Exposed Population:
About 83410 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2016 18:30 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  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 492 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

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JAPÓN: Ecos de una catástrofeThu, 24 Mar 2016 14:58:00 +0100.

Por MARÍA VICTORIA VALDÉS RODA. La herida sigue abierta. A cinco años de que un terremoto y un posterior tsunami arrasaran la central nuclear de Fukushima, el pueblo japonés sigue sufriendo las consecuencias de ese catastrófico evento. Al c
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2004: Lo TsunamiThu, 24 Mar 2016 14:58:00 +0100.

Genova - 31 dicembre 2004, un terremoto provoca un’immensa onda che spazza via città e villaggi nel Sudest asiatico. Centinaia di migliaia i morti, tra le vittime anche diversi italiani. Il mondo assiste quasi impotente alla tragedia “ Capo
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Natural disasters leave 1,500 people dead, missing annuallyThu, 24 Mar 2016 14:46:00 +0100.

BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Natural disasters left about 1,500 people dead or missing annually from 2011 to 2015 in China, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Thursday. Disasters affected 310 million people each year during the same period
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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),