M 4.8 in China on 06 Aug 2019 01:19 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 1185730
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.6901 , 121.5459
Event Date: 06 Aug 2019 01:19 UTC
06 Aug 2019 09:19 Local
Exposed Population:
1750000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2019 01:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60005143 Scaled population (vector) 6.1  
  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

Articles: 184 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

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Lekima made landfall at around 1am local time on Saturday (6pm Friday BST). The storm is expected to weaken as its moves inland, but not before dumping catastrophic amounts of rain and punishing winds. Chinese authorities have issued a red
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Typhoon Lekima, earthquake kill twoFri, 09 Aug 2019 18:47:00 +0200.

Typhoon Lekima, which sideswiped northern Taiwan from late Thursday through early yesterday, and a strong earthquake on Thursday morning left two people dead, 11 injured and more than 3,000 homes without electricity overnight, the Central E
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China on red alert as super Typhoon Lekima bears down on coast sparkin ... Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:25:00 +0200.

Super typhoon Lekima will strike mainland China on Friday, and authorities have issued a red alert for the massive storm with mass evacuations and hundreds of cancelled flights. The typhoon will head towards China's central region on early
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MAKING WAVES China typhoon - where is Super Typhoon Lekima and could i ... Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:49:00 +0200.

The site's senior meteorologist Dave Houk said: "Areas from northern Taiwan to eastern China look to bear the brunt of Lekima through Sunday." Mr Houk said that storms of up to 135mph were possible over open water or at coastal locations. E
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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),