M 4.7 in China on 29 Apr 2016 04:36 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 1085372
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.7473 , 74.0788
Event Date: 29 Apr 2016 04:36 UTC
29 Apr 2016 12:36 Local
Exposed Population:
About 83249 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2016 04:57 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: 417 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

UN food relief agency provides logistics support to boost earthquake r ... Tue, 03 May 2016 02:41:00 +0200.

. UN Tuesday 3rd May, 2016 2 May 2016 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that it is providing logistics support to Kumamoto prefecture in south-western Japan as part of assistance to people affected by strong earthq
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Yomitan donates ¥10 million to earthquake disaster reliefTue, 03 May 2016 02:33:00 +0200.

Yomitan Village has decided to donate ¥10 million to the relief efforts in the earthquake disaster areas of Kumamoto and Oita Prefectures in Kyushu. The donation will be divided evenly between Kumamoto and Oita Prefectures, and the hardest
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Chile quake information expands disaster and failure data repositoryTue, 03 May 2016 01:26:00 +0200.

27 February 2010, is a date that most Chileans will probably never forget. On that day, the sixth strongest earthquake in recorded history — packing a force greater than the most powerful thermonuclear device ever tested — occurred off the
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Bodies of climbers emerge from Himalayan glacier after 16 yearsMon, 02 May 2016 23:29:00 +0200.

Kathmandu, May 2. The bodies of top mountaineer Alex Lowe and his cameraman have been found in a Himalayan glacier, 16 years after they were buried by an avalanche on one of the world’s highest mountains. Two climbers last week came across
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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),