M 4.8 in China on 20 Apr 2013 11:12 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 124216
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.3702 , 103.108
Event Date: 20 Apr 2013 11:12 UTC
20 Apr 2013 19:12 Local
Exposed Population:
11810000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2013 11:34 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000gckm 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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Latest media headlines

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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),