M 5.5 in China on 11 May 2016 01:15 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 1086095
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.0375 , 94.9874
Event Date: 11 May 2016 01:15 UTC
11 May 2016 09:15 Local
Exposed Population:
139135 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2016 01:35 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 753 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

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Royal victory for ChallengersSat, 14 May 2016 21:30:00 +0200.

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Duhalde: “Están haciendo un maremoto en una palangana”Sat, 14 May 2016 21:08:00 +0200.

“Esa ley es hacer un maremoto de una palangana, no tiene ninguna importancia. Si se aprueba o no, es lo mismo”, aseguró el ex mandatario en una entrevista con el matutino La Nación. Cuando le preguntaron si “hay una crisis de empleo”, señal
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Almost 20 per cent of some 80 resolutions involve aboriginal ...Sat, 14 May 2016 18:33:00 +0200.

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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),