M 5.8 in China on 04 Aug 2021 21:50 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 1280180
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10.51 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.7938 , 122.2791
Event Date: 04 Aug 2021 21:50 UTC
05 Aug 2021 05:50 Local
Exposed Population: 7.8 million in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2021 22:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f29v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),