M 4.6 in China on 21 Apr 2013 14:16 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 124248
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.4147 , 103.023
Event Date: 21 Apr 2013 14:16 UTC
21 Apr 2013 22:16 Local
Exposed Population:
8840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Apr 2013 16:32 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2013pga5 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Dos sismos en China dejan 61 heridos 4/25/2013 2:14:00 PM.

Dos temblores de magnitud 4,8 afectaron a 45.592 personas y obligaron a relocalizar 14.000 habitantes ÚN | AVN.- Este jueves, dos temblores de 4,8 grados de intensidad ocasionaron 61 heridos y 45.592 afectados en China, informaron las autor
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Survivor rescued five days after quake 4/25/2013 1:48:00 PM.

YA'AN, Sichuan, April 25 (Xinhua) -- A 78-year-old man was rescued on Wednesday afternoon in Baoxing County of Ya'an City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, five days after an earthquake hit the area, according to the municipal governme
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Power grid reconstruction starts in quake-hit region 4/25/2013 1:48:00 PM.

LUSHAN, Sichuan, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Reconstruction of the power grid in the quake-hit region in southwest China's Sichuan Province kicked off on Thursday as the power supply is expected to fully resume on Friday. "Emergency repair work on
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Dos nuevos sismos en China dejan 61 heridos y más de 45.000 afectados 4/25/2013 1:42:00 PM.

Este jueves, dos temblores de 4,8 grados de intensidad ocasionaron 61 heridos y 45.592 afectados en China, informaron las autoridades de la provincia de Sichuan, donde el sábado un terremoto de siete grados de intensidad ocasionó 196 muerto
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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),