M 5.1 in China on 22 Nov 2017 14:20 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 1127114
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 14.58 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.5111 , 120.6971
Event Date: 22 Nov 2017 14:20 UTC
22 Nov 2017 22:20 Local
Exposed Population:
9640000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2017 14:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us2000bsu1 Scaled population (vector) 6.85  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

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تحذيرات من "تسونامي" آخر على خلفية زلزال تركياSat, 25 Nov 2017 07:11:00 +0100.

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Moderate quake recorded in NZ regionSat, 25 Nov 2017 05:36:00 +0100.

Update: 5:08PM A 5.1 MAGNITUDE earthquake was recorded in the New Zealand region early this morning. The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department stated the moderate earthquake occurred at 3.11am at a depth of 148km. The seismic
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A Global Outlook on Disaster ScienceSat, 25 Nov 2017 04:48:00 +0100.

on the 26 th November 2017. at Bosai Global Forum Focus on scientific research outputs The World Economic Forum identified major disasters as one of the top five global risks in 2017. The risk and impact of major disasters have been exacerb
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1,4KSat, 25 Nov 2017 04:34:00 +0100.

L'idéologie des bureaucrates, technocrates, énarques nous a imposé le nucléaire et c'est lui qui nous ruine depuis cinquante an, d'abord sur nos feuilles d'impôts bien avant les factures d'EDF, et ça va s'aggraver. Les renouvelables par con
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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),