M 5.2 in China on 20 Mar 2018 09:22 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 1137980
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 13.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.2767 , 120.5908
Event Date: 20 Mar 2018 09:22 UTC
20 Mar 2018 17:22 Local
Exposed Population:
10280000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Mar 2018 09:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
us1000d6qk Scaled population (vector) 6.93  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 82 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

China fosters interdisciplinary research to promote innovationSat, 24 Mar 2018 07:25:00 +0100.

Fu Haohuan and his team are using the world's fastest supercomputer to forge ahead China's research on Earth system science. With a strong academic background in computer science, Fu joined the Department of Earth Science Systems at Tsinghu
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Feature: China fosters interdisciplinary research to promote innovatio ... Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:00:00 +0100.

By Xinhua Writer Guo Ying. BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Fu Haohuan and his team are using the world's fastest supercomputer to forge ahead China's research on Earth system science. With a strong academic background in computer science, Fu
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China: NGO challenges hydropower station project alleging numerous eco ... Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100.

Author: Du Caicai, Li Rongde, Caixin (China) ...Trees have been felled and vegetation cleared upstream along the Xiaohei River in Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna prefecture to make way for a dam...Xiaohei River feeds the Luosuo River, a major tribut
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Seismologists introduce new measure of earthquake rupturesFri, 23 Mar 2018 11:22:00 +0100.

A team of seismologists has developed a new measurement of seismic energy release that can be applied to large earthquakes. Called the Radiated Energy Enhancement Factor (REEF), it provides a measure of earthquake rupture complexity that be
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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),