M 4.5 in China on 07 May 2016 14:51 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 1085882
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.1827 , 121.7816
Event Date: 07 May 2016 14:51 UTC
07 May 2016 22:51 Local
Exposed Population:
6575914 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2016 15:57 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  
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Latest media headlines

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It's not just Alberta: Fires fuelled by warming climate are increasingWed, 11 May 2016 14:31:00 +0200.

Alberta's unusually early and large fire is just the latest of many gargantuan fires on an Earth that's grown hotter with more extreme weather. Earlier this year, large wildfires hit spots on opposite ends of the world — Tasmania and Oklaho
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Earthquake drill held in NW China's primary schoolWed, 11 May 2016 14:25:00 +0200.

YINCHUAN， May 11， 2016 (Xinhua) -- Students hide themselves under desks at the No. 3 primary school in Yongning County of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region， May 11， 2016. Various activities such as drills， classes， trainings w
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1st LD-Writethru: More than 60 injured in Tibet quakeWed, 11 May 2016 14:25:00 +0200.

LHASA， May 11 (Xinhua) -- More than 60 people were injured， six of them seriously， in a 5.5-magnitude earthquake that hit Dengqen County in Tibet's Qamdo City on Wednesday morning， local authorities said. The quake， which was strongly felt
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Nepal third in internal displacement by natural disastersWed, 11 May 2016 14:24:00 +0200.

KATHMANDU: The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2016) revealed that Nepal recorded the third highest level of new displacement worldwide, in both relative and absolute terms, thanks to the devastating earthquakes in April and Ma
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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),