M 5 in China on 21 May 2016 20:51 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 1086716
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.7749 , 120.663
Event Date: 21 May 2016 20:51 UTC
22 May 2016 04:51 Local
Exposed Population:
6890542 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2016 21:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),