M 4.9 in China on 14 Dec 2016 08:14 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 1100841
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.5954 , 90.062
Event Date: 14 Dec 2016 08:14 UTC
14 Dec 2016 16:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 25794 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2016 08:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080p1 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),