M 5.5 in Mongolia on 17 Jan 2022 15:04 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 1306351
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.789 , 95.1305
Event Date: 17 Jan 2022 15:04 UTC
17 Jan 2022 22:04 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
3 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2022 16:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Mongolia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Mongolia= 5.1; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gcmh Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),