M 4.8 in China on 14 Oct 2012 23:07 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 120221
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 25.1594 , 101.94
Event Date: 14 Oct 2012 23:07 UTC
15 Oct 2012 07:07 Local
Exposed Population:
6870000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Oct 2012 23:57 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000d5tb Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 448 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

Hoy 'en vivo': Charles Walker presenta su libro "Colonialismo en ruina ... Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:36:00 +0200.

Historiador se encuentra en Lima con motiva de su más reciente publicación. Véalo en vivo a través de www.larepublica.pe/envivo desde las 5:00 PM Hoy, jueves, a las 5:00 PM el reconocido historiados norteamericano Charles Walker presentará
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Quakes highlight importance of today's ShakeOut eventThu, 18 Oct 2012 21:03:00 +0200.

“Drop, Cover and Hold On” By Fili Sagapolutele fili@samoanews.com Two earthquakes occurring within hours of each other rattled the Samoa and Tonga regions yesterday morning but there have been no reports of damage or injuries, according to
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Tepco to expand compensation for tourism industry lossesThu, 18 Oct 2012 20:06:00 +0200.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will include companies in the tourism industry in the Tohoku region prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita and Yamagata in its list for compensation, besides Fukushima, home to its crippled Fuk
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Head of Ashinaga charity for orphans gets global awardThu, 18 Oct 2012 19:21:00 +0200.

Yoshiomi Tamai, president and founder of the Ashinaga charity for orphans, won this year's global fundraiser award given by the International Fundraising Congress. Since beginning its charitable activities in 1967, Tamai's organization has
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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),