M 4.6 in China on 18 May 2016 16:57 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 1086524
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 38.48 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.0719 , 95.0174
Event Date: 18 May 2016 16:57 UTC
19 May 2016 00:57 Local
Exposed Population:
139135 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 May 2016 22:30 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: 815 | About casualties: 37 | Last hour: 0

Heavy rain wreaks havoc in ChinaSun, 22 May 2016 16:11:00 +0200.

HECHI, May 20, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 20, 2016 shows floods in Nanxiong Village of Yongfu County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A flood alert was issued in Guangxi on Friday as heavy rains continued. (Xinhua/L
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Inner Mongolia sweats in severe droughtSun, 22 May 2016 16:11:00 +0200.

HOHHOT, May 22 (Xinhua) -- A severe drought in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has inflicted damages in almost half of the region, causing more than 10 million yuan (1.5 million U.S. dollars) in economic losses. The drought i
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Pakistan sends field hospital, relief goods for Sri Lankan flood victi ... Sun, 22 May 2016 15:53:00 +0200.

Sun, May 22, 2016, 07:15 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 22, Colombo: The Government of Pakistan has sent a 30 bed fully equipped modern field hospital and relief materials for the victims of the recent floods in Sri Lanka
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Efemérides: ¿qué pasó el 22 de mayo?Sun, 22 May 2016 15:33:00 +0200.

En un 22 de mayo, pero de 1960, el mayor terremoto del siglo XX, que superó los nueve grados en la escala de Richter y tuvo réplicas de menor intensidad durante cinco días, sacude el sur de Chile y causa entre 5.000 y 6.000 muertos y un tsu
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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),