M 6.3 in China on 08 Aug 2017 23:27 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 1118842
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 25.87 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.323 , 82.837
Event Date: 08 Aug 2017 23:27 UTC
09 Aug 2017 07:27 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
430000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2017 23:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.7 (Kazakhstan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Kazakhstan= 3.7; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us2000a65e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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),