M 6 in China on 27 Mar 2013 02:03 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 123458
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 20.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8396 , 121.135
Event Date: 27 Mar 2013 02:03 UTC
27 Mar 2013 10:03 Local
Exposed Population:
6844826 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Mar 2013 02:26 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
usb000ftgc 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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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),