Overall Orange Earthquake alert in China on 20 Apr 2013 00:02 UTC

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M 6.6 in China on 20 Apr 2013 00:02 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 124193
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.6M
Glide number:	EQ-2013-000046-CHN
Depth:	12.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	30.2843 , 102.956
Event Date:	20 Apr 2013 00:02 UTC 20 Apr 2013 08:02 Local
Exposed Population:	About 86000 people in MMI 5470000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Feb 2017 13:13 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	1.2		1.2
usb000gcdd	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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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