M 5.1 in China on 23 Nov 2017 09:43 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 1127191
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.3616 , 108.1037
Event Date: 23 Nov 2017 09:43 UTC
23 Nov 2017 17:43 Local
Exposed Population:
4450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Nov 2017 09:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2000btg4 Scaled population (vector) 6.59  
  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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ضرب زلزال بقوة 7.5 درجات على مقياس ريختر للزلازل جنوبى المحيط الهادئ مساء اليوم السبت، قبالة ساحل نيو كاليدونيا، حسبما أفادت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الامريكية. وقالت الهيئة إن مركز الزلزال يبعد نحو 200 كيلومتر عن شمال إلى شمال شرقى جزيرة هان
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زلزال بقوة 7.5 درجات يضرب جنوبي المحيط الهادئSat, 25 Nov 2017 20:54:00 +0100.

برلين – (د ب أ): ضرب زلزال بقوة 7.5 درجات على مقياس ريختر للزلازل جنوبى المحيط الهادئ، مساء اليوم السبت، قبالة ساحل نيو كاليدونيا، حسبما أفادت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكية. وقالت الهيئة إن مركز الزلزال يبعد نحو 200 كيلومتر عن شمال إلى شما
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Area manufacturers gird for 'gray tsunami' of retirementsSat, 25 Nov 2017 18:37:00 +0100.

Patrick Barrett loves working as a machinist at Moog Inc. But at 33, he is among the younger people in his field at the Elma-based motion control company. With many co-workers in his department in their 50s and 60s, Moog faces a similar sit
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Novo sistema de alerta de tsunamis aumenta segurança por "apenas 1M€" ... Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:55:00 +0100.

"É um investimento de apenas um milhão de euros. E digo ‘apenas’ porque às vezes fala-se de investimentos de muitos milhões de euros que, porventura, não têm um valor acrescentado para a nossa segurança como este milhão. Este milhão permite
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),