M 4.5 in China on 17 Nov 2017 19:30 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 1126714
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 16.73 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.78 , 122.5107
Event Date: 17 Nov 2017 19:30 UTC
18 Nov 2017 03:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2017 21:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bqmx Scaled population (vector) 2.4  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 735 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

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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),