M 5.2 in China on 20 Jan 2019 14:28 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 1168500
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10.08 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.4096 , 87.6288
Event Date: 20 Jan 2019 14:28 UTC
20 Jan 2019 22:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 46000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2019 14:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j6mf Scaled population (vector) 4.6  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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New Yogyakarta airport prepared to face tsunami, Indonesian government ... Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:04:00 +0100.

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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),