M 5.3 in China on 10 Feb 2017 17:12 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 1105263
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 15.74 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.8247 , 120.2282
Event Date: 10 Feb 2017 17:12 UTC
11 Feb 2017 01:12 Local
Exposed Population: 1760000 people in MMI
6660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2017 15:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us20008izc 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),