M 5.4 in China on 04 May 2014 20:23 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 1031090
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.6466 , 77.6565
Event Date: 04 May 2014 20:23 UTC
05 May 2014 04:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 70245 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2014 21:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),