M 5.3 in China on 15 May 2017 23:12 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 1113087
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 17.23 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.286 , 121.4296
Event Date: 15 May 2017 23:12 UTC
16 May 2017 07:12 Local
Exposed Population:
860000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2017 00:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us10008sm6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 410 | About casualties: 69 | Last hour: 0

الطحالب... كيف تنقذ بشرتكِ؟Fri, 19 May 2017 21:30:00 +0200.

الطحالب خضراء، وتنبت في البحار، وهي عالية التقنية، وتتمتّع بقدرات خارقة تتيح لها حماية بشرتنا من تأثيرات الزمن المضرة... إليك لمحة عن هذه الثورة. يشهد كل أسبوع يمرّ ترويجاً لنوع غذائي جديد (يكون أحياناً مضراً) على موقع «إنستغرام». نسمع راهن
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Senior Navy officer reviews HADR exercise at Karwar baseFri, 19 May 2017 20:28:00 +0200.

A senior official of the Western Naval Command (WNC) today reviewed the annual Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise at the naval base here. The exercise was reviewed by Vice Admiral Girish Luthra, Flag Officer C
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"Vivimos tsunami de inseguridad": Alex DomínguezFri, 19 May 2017 19:34:00 +0200.

Alex Domínguez aseguró que Chihuahua vive "tsunami" en materia de inseguridad y que ante la estrategia "Escudo" con cámaras y drones, lo que falta es coordinación para investigar y castigar el delito. Por: En rueda de prensa que ofreció la
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Huge landslide in Uttarakhand leaves 15,000 tourists stranded on Badri ... Fri, 19 May 2017 18:44:00 +0200.

At least 15,000 tourists were left stranded in Uttarakhand after a landslide near Vishnuprayag on the Badrinath route in Chamoli district, as per news agency ANI. The Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway has been blocked says PTI. The agenc
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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),