Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 30 May 2014 01:20 UTC

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M 5.9 in China on 30 May 2014 01:20 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 1033134
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	24.9762 , 97.8648
Event Date:	30 May 2014 01:20 UTC 30 May 2014 09:20 Local
Exposed Population:	2550000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	30 May 2014 01:38 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), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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