M 4.5 in China on 04 May 2016 09:24 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 1085657
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 15.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.2313 , 103.3303
Event Date: 04 May 2016 09:24 UTC
04 May 2016 17:24 Local
Exposed Population:
4596916 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2016 10:54 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 500 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

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Heridas abiertas tras el temblor que cambió la vida de EcuadorSun, 08 May 2016 06:46:00 +0200.

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Fujian earthquake triggers mudslide: rescuers race against time to sav ... Sun, 08 May 2016 06:35:00 +0200.

. About 35 workers have gone missing or are buried by mud in a construction site in Taining county, Sanming, Fujian province, after a landslide, mainland media reports. The landslide at 5am Sunday morning buried a workers’ dorm at the site
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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),