M 5.9 in China on 30 May 2014 01:20 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 1033134
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.9762 , 97.8648
Event Date: 30 May 2014 01:20 UTC
30 May 2014 09:20 Local
Exposed Population: 2550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 May 2014 01:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
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

Articles: 476 | About casualties: 65 | Last hour: 0

Se reanuda el servicio de trenes dentro del área de evacuación de Fuku ... Mon, 02 Jun 2014 07:35:00 +0200.

Tokio, 2 jun (EFE).- La compañía ferroviaria japonesa JR ha reanudado parte de sus conexiones de trenes dentro del área de evacuación de Fukushima después de más de tres años sin operar en la zona por el accidente nuclear de 2011, informaro
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Se reanuda el servicio de trenes dentro del área de evacuación de Fuku ... Mon, 02 Jun 2014 07:35:00 +0200.

La compañía ferroviaria japonesa JR ha reanudado parte de sus conexiones de trenes dentro del área de evacuación de Fukushima después de más de tres años sin operar en la zona por el accidente nuclear de 2011, informaron hoy medios locales.
Power, telecom resumed in China quake zoneMon, 02 Jun 2014 07:31:00 +0200.

YINGJIANG, Yunnan, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Power and telecommunications have resumed in Yingjiang County in southwest China's Yunnan Province after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on Friday. The quake relief headquarters in the county said that by Mo
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Han sido dados de alta 36 de los 48 heridos en el terremoto de YunnanMon, 02 Jun 2014 07:29:00 +0200.

06-02-2014 10:42. Un terremoto de 6,1 grados en la escala de Richter sacudió el viernes un condado en la provincia suroccidental china de Yunnan. La sede general de ayuda en el condado de Yingjiang afirmó que 36 de los 48 heridos han sido
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),