M 5.3 in China on 15 Sep 2015 19:37 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 1065659
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 16.78 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.2336 , 121.8765
Event Date: 15 Sep 2015 19:37 UTC
16 Sep 2015 03:37 Local
Exposed Population:
6460732 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2015 17:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
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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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),