M 4.6 in China on 20 Jan 2019 02:52 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 1168492
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 38.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.0066 , 95.0511
Event Date: 20 Jan 2019 02:52 UTC
20 Jan 2019 10:52 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2019 03:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)
INFORM Coping capacity list: India= 4.6; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j6j5 Scaled population (vector) 4.84  
  C1 earthquake 0.74  
  C2 earthquake -0.08  
  Country Vulnerability -0.39  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),