Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 12 May 2016 03:17 UTC

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M 5.6 in China on 12 May 2016 03:17 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 1086157
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	24.6744 , 121.9662
Event Date:	12 May 2016 03:17 UTC 12 May 2016 11:17 Local
Exposed Population:	9720000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	12 May 2016 03:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.7		0.7
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),

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