M 4.6 in China on 26 Mar 2017 23:40 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 1108738
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 30.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.8683 , 99.9726
Event Date: 26 Mar 2017 23:40 UTC
27 Mar 2017 07:40 Local
Exposed Population:
3530000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Mar 2017 23:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008uw4 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: 214 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Ex-cyclone Debbie: authorities fear deaths in floodsThu, 30 Mar 2017 22:39:00 +0200.

“We expect this morning that as we start to go out and try to find people that made those calls overnight, there could be some very distressing news,” Morrow said. “There could be people overnight that perished in that flood – we don’t know
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Vídeo: ‘La Gran Ola’, o documentário que aborda o iminente tsunami em ... Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:23:00 +0200.

Um documentário chamado ‘La Gran Ola’, que conta com a participação de diversos especialistas em oceanografia, portugueses e espanhóis, dá como certa a ocorrência de um tsunami, que varrerá a Península Ibérica. “A pergunta não é ‘vai haver
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Thai ride to aid the homeless and orphanedThu, 30 Mar 2017 22:00:00 +0200.

PORT Macquarie’s Jay Beaumont will make his fourth trip to Thailand this month to complete a 500 kilometre bike ride for charity. Jay is part of the "Blueprint Bikeriders", a business group which completes the ride annually. This year, Jay'
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بالصور.. تصميم غريب لناطحة سحاب تتدلى من السماءThu, 30 Mar 2017 21:45:00 +0200.

كشفت شركة التصميم الأمريكية “Clouds Architecture Office” عن تصور غريب لناطحة سحاب أعلى سطح الأرض لأنها ستكون معلقة بكويكب مداري في الفضاء. وسيتم تعليق ناطحة السحاب التي تحمل اسم "أناليما تاور" “Analemma Tower” - وستكون أطول برج في العالم -
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),