M 5.2 in China on 21 Apr 2013 09:05 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 124236
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 9.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.3284 , 102.994
Event Date: 21 Apr 2013 09:05 UTC
21 Apr 2013 17:05 Local
Exposed Population:
7890000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Apr 2013 09:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000gd3w 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

China: Habitat for Humanity seeks funding to help families affected by.. 4/25/2013 8:57:00 AM.

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Students in US offer suport to Ya'an 4/25/2013 8:48:00 AM.

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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),