M 5.7 in China on 25 Nov 2018 23:57 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 1163330
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 11.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.4016 , 118.608
Event Date: 25 Nov 2018 23:57 UTC
26 Nov 2018 07:57 Local
Exposed Population: About 31000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Nov 2018 00:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hwix Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),