M 4.6 in China on 19 Jan 2017 03:42 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 1103565
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 21.6263 , 120.0873
Event Date: 19 Jan 2017 03:42 UTC
19 Jan 2017 11:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 87000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2017 04:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007u1j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Relocation to support 'ecological migrants'Mon, 23 Jan 2017 03:01:00 +0100.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),