M 5.1 in China on 20 Jan 2018 13:50 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 1131379
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.6855 , 87.4396
Event Date: 20 Jan 2018 13:50 UTC
20 Jan 2018 21:50 Local
Exposed Population:
3960000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2018 14:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
us2000clt0 Scaled population (vector) 7.2  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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),