M 4.8 in China on 26 Feb 2017 18:48 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 1106534
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.2773 , 83.5638
Event Date: 26 Feb 2017 18:48 UTC
27 Feb 2017 02:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 14000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2017 19:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nepal= 5.9; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008mji Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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'Tsunami' of sewage from Tijuana may have been deliberateThu, 02 Mar 2017 17:56:00 +0100.

The International Boundary and Water Commission said the tsunami stopped when a major pipe near where the Alamar and Tijuana rivers had been fixed. Dave Gibson, executive officer of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, told t
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Japan wants more robots to assess damage in FukushimaThu, 02 Mar 2017 17:56:00 +0100.

TOKYO — The head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday that more creativity is needed in developing robots to locate and assess the condition of melted fuel rods. A robot sent inside the Unit 2 containment
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Yrd. Doç Dr. Oğuz Gündoğdu: Asıl tehlike uzun süredir sessiz duran Big ... Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:54:00 +0100.

Erdem ÖZCAN/BANDIRMA (Balıkesir), () - İSTANBUL Üniversitesi Jeofizik Mühendisliği öğretim üyesi Yrd. Doç. Dr. Oğuz Gündoğdu, Marmara Bölgesi’nde büyük deprem beklendiğini belirterek, "Asıl tehlikeyi ise uzun süredir sessiz duran Biga fayın
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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),