M 5 in China on 21 Feb 2018 23:10 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 1135468
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.3971 , 121.6286
Event Date: 21 Feb 2018 23:10 UTC
22 Feb 2018 07:10 Local
Exposed Population:
730000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2018 23:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d669 Scaled population (vector) 5.67  
  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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Latest media headlines

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),