M 4.5 in China on 21 Aug 2017 01:14 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 1119708
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.543 , 94.8091
Event Date: 21 Aug 2017 01:14 UTC
21 Aug 2017 09:14 Local
Exposed Population:
About 75000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2017 01:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000aa26 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

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),