M 4.5 in China on 20 Apr 2017 03:39 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 1110699
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.9421 , 77.9066
Event Date: 20 Apr 2017 03:39 UTC
20 Apr 2017 11:39 Local
Exposed Population:
1430000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2017 03:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008j60 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 249 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Valparaíso registra más de 30 sismos y sismología descarta "enjambre"Mon, 24 Apr 2017 02:05:00 +0200.

Vecinos saliendo de sus casas alarmados por el sismo 6.0 Richter que afectó a la zona central del país , se podía observar la noche del pasado sábado en los cerros de Valparaíso. Incluso, algunos autos activaron sus alarmas y también se reg
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“¡Vete a escribir, vete a escribir!”Sun, 23 Apr 2017 23:53:00 +0200.

Como cada Sant Jordi más de trescientos escritores tomaron literalmente las principales calles de Barcelona en una jornada en que los autores se encontraron con sus lectores más allá de las páginas de un libro; una jornada en la que además
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“¡Vete a escribir, vete a escribir!”Sun, 23 Apr 2017 23:51:00 +0200.

Como cada Sant Jordi más de trescientos escritores tomaron literalmente las principales calles de Barcelona en una jornada en que los autores se encontraron con sus lectores más allá de las páginas de un libro; una jornada en la que además
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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),