M 5.3 in China on 14 Dec 2017 18:54 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 1128685
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 9.01 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.15 , 101.8754
Event Date: 14 Dec 2017 18:54 UTC
15 Dec 2017 02:54 Local
Exposed Population:
480000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2017 22:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c4i9 Scaled population (vector) 5.58  
  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: 245 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

INTERNACIONAL - Política: El multimillonario chileno que busca volver ... Fri, 15 Dec 2017 01:42:00 +0100.

Por Antonio De la Jara. SANTIAGO (Reuters) - El multimillonario conservador Sebastián Piñera buscará el domingo regresar al sillón presidencial de Chile con la promesa de facilitar la inversión y retomar una senda de alto crecimiento, pero
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Schools hold evacuation drills for tsunami preparednessFri, 15 Dec 2017 01:35:00 +0100.

Commemorating the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster, schools near the city’s coastline held evacuation drills in a bid to improve disaster preparedness, on Thursday. The evacuation drill was conducted in schools in
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Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): Sistema de monitoreo oceanográfico ... Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:53:00 +0100.

El Ministerio del Poder Popular para Ecosocialismo y Aguas y el programa de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, presentaron este jueves el proyecto del Sistema de Áreas Protegidas Marino-Costeras de Venezuela, que des
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'The Children' Review: Living in the Shadow of the MeltdownFri, 15 Dec 2017 00:52:00 +0100.

New York. What do three retired nuclear engineers talk about when they get together after a nuclear meltdown has caused an earthquake and a tsunami on the coast of England and has left much of the countryside uninhabitable? In Lucy Kirkwood
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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),