M 5.7 in China on 23 Oct 2018 04:34 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 1159723
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 34.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.0908 , 122.6153
Event Date: 23 Oct 2018 04:34 UTC
23 Oct 2018 12:34 Local
Exposed Population: About 53000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Oct 2018 04:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hfxx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),