M 6.3 in China on 22 Jul 2020 20:07 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 1227391
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.1313 , 86.8397
Event Date: 22 Jul 2020 20:07 UTC
23 Jul 2020 04:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2020 07:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.5
us6000b26j Scaled population (raster) 3.62  
  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

Articles: 193 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

1st LD-Writethru: 5.5-magnitude quake hits Taiwan: CENCSun, 26 Jul 2020 16:04:00 +0200.

BEIJING/TAIPEI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted coastal waters of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 8:52 p.m. Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of 50 km, wa
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5.5-magnitude quake hits Taiwan: CENCSun, 26 Jul 2020 16:04:00 +0200.

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted coastal waters of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 8:52 p.m. Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of 50 km, was monit
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1st LD-Writethru: 5.5-magnitude quake hits Taiwan: CENCSun, 26 Jul 2020 15:49:00 +0200.

. Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. BEIJING/TAIPEI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted coastal waters of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 8:52 p.m. Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epi
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5.5-magnitude quake hits Taiwan: CENCSun, 26 Jul 2020 15:26:00 +0200.

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted coastal waters of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 8:52 p.m. Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of 50 km, was monit
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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),