M 5.3 in China on 27 Jan 2017 18:46 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 1104212
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 36.96 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.2176 , 104.7924
Event Date: 27 Jan 2017 18:46 UTC
28 Jan 2017 02:46 Local
Exposed Population:
8500000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2017 17:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10007vts Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 458 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Il pianeta terra nel mirino di un asteroideTue, 31 Jan 2017 18:24:00 +0100.

Nell'ultimo periodo sta prendendo sempre più corpo una notizia che avremmo volentieri fatto a meno di sentire. Più fonti, non ultima dall'accreditato Daily Mail, danno per certo un contatto fra la Terra e un asteroide da verificarsi a fine
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Evacuación masiva en Esmeraldas y Manabí por simulacro de tsunami [www ... Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:15:00 +0100.

Mientras se realizaba esta operación se sintió un sismo de 5,4 en la zona costera En la mañana de este martes 31 de enero se realizó el simulacro biprovincial tras alerta de Tsunami en Esmeraldas y Manabí. En este evento se realizó la evacu
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Sismo sacude costa norte y capital de EcuadorTue, 31 Jan 2017 17:54:00 +0100.

QUITO, ECUADOR (31/ENE/2017).- Un sismo con magnitud de 5.0 grados Richter sacudió este martes la costa norte de Ecuador y se sintió con fuerza en la capital del país donde muchos abandonaron edificios altos y salieron a las calles, pero si
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Sacude sismo a EcuadorTue, 31 Jan 2017 17:53:00 +0100.

QUITO, ECUADOR.- Un sismo con magnitud de 5.0 grados Richter sacudió este martes la costa norte de Ecuador y se sintió con fuerza en la capital del país donde muchos abandonaron edificios altos y salieron a las calles, pero sin reportarse d
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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),