M 4.9 in China on 27 Dec 2016 00:17 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 1101879
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 29.492 , 105.7638
Event Date: 27 Dec 2016 00:17 UTC
27 Dec 2016 08:17 Local
Exposed Population:
19701294 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2016 00:43 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007myh 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),