M 4.8 in China on 21 Mar 2016 03:29 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 1082898
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 15.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.2328 , 98.184
Event Date: 21 Mar 2016 03:29 UTC
21 Mar 2016 11:29 Local
Exposed Population:
1510589 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2016 03:54 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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Latest media headlines

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Arturo Salah: "La situación del fútbol chileno ha sido un terremoto"Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:49:00 +0100.

En entrevista con Mega, el presidente de la ANFP Arturo Salah reconoció estar muy ansioso en el primer partido que vive como timonel del fútbol chileno y analizó el cotejo que La Roja sostendrá ante Argentina. La ansiedad que siente, a juic
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Union chief Heath List STOLE members’ cash to fund a luxury lifeFri, 25 Mar 2016 00:08:00 +0100.

EPA Tony Brooks Mr List wrote 283 cheques to himself and family members Heath List, 49, used his position with Unite to write 283 cheques to himself, family members and utility companies over six years. He then used the swindled cash to spl
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Mitteilung von presseportal.de: Cottbus (ots) - Die Vorwürfe sind erheblich: Könnten die Opfer des Nationalsozialistischen Untergrunds noch leben, wenn in der Brandenburger Innenverwaltung alles mit rechten Dingen zugegangen wäre? Vieles de
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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),