M 4.8 in China on 12 Mar 2017 12:21 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 1107611
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 39.59 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.1914 , 103.5868
Event Date: 12 Mar 2017 12:21 UTC
12 Mar 2017 20:21 Local
Exposed Population:
5470000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Mar 2017 12:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us100088iq 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

Articles: 816 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

08h05 - La nouvelle vie des habitants de Fukushima [Partie 2] : le pêc ... Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:27:00 +0100.

Motofumi Kikuchi est pêcheur. Il a été 15 mois au chômage après le tsunami et la catastrophe nucléaire. Aujourd'hui, il croit à l'embellie. - Arnaud Le Gall Obligés de quitter leur maison ou leur travail, des milliers de Japonais tentent d
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L'Etat refuse de l'indemniser après les inondations d'octobre 2015, el ... Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:05:00 +0100.

Sa maison a été dévastée lors des inondations d'octobre 2015. Aujourd'hui, cette octogénaire « ne vit plus » et souhaite quitter les lieux. Mais son dossier d'indemnisation a été retoqué Q uand la pluie a commencé à taper très fort, je sui
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09h52 - A Fukushima, les représentants de la Manche découvrent la cent ... Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:58:00 +0100.

Mardi 14 mars 2017, la délégation des commissions locales d'information des sites nucléaires de la Manche était en visite sur la centrale nucléaire accidentée de Fukushima Daiichi, au Japon. Elle a pu se rendre compte de l'avancement du cha
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N. Korea nuclear tests and earthquakesThu, 16 Mar 2017 09:35:00 +0100.

Nuclear testing has often been used as an indicator of scientific and military strength, and many most nuclear weapons states publicly declared their nuclear status by means of a nuclear test. North Korea conducted five underground tests at
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),