M 4.7 in China on 26 Jul 2020 09:58 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 1227657
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.4241 , 94.7783
Event Date: 26 Jul 2020 09:58 UTC
26 Jul 2020 17:58 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2020 10:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b4bp Scaled population (vector) 4.72  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 169 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

'Man cannot win against nature': Amid catastrophic floods, Chi ... Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:55:00 +0200.

A security guard looks at his smartphone as water is released from China's Three Gorges Dam on July 19 to relieve pressure from flooding. (Getty Images) The white-haired farmer ran barefoot to his fields at 2 a.m. so he could harvest his cr
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'Man cannot win against nature': Amid catastrophic floods, Chi ... Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:49:00 +0200.

A security guard looks at his smartphone as water is released from China's Three Gorges Dam on July 19 to relieve pressure from flooding. (Getty Images) The white-haired farmer ran barefoot to his fields at 2 a.m. so he could harvest his cr
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44th anniv. of 1976 Tangshan Earthquake marked in N ChinaWed, 29 Jul 2020 06:26:00 +0200.

A woman holding a flower basket walks past memorial walls in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, July 28, 2020, the 44th anniversary of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake. (Photo by Dong Jun/Xinhua) People visit Tangshan Earthquake Ruins Mem
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'Man cannot win against nature': Amid catastrophic floods, Chi ... Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:45:00 +0200.

A security guard looks at his smartphone as water is released from China's Three Gorges Dam on July 19 to relieve pressure from flooding. (Getty Images) The white-haired farmer ran barefoot to his fields at 2 a.m. so he could harvest his cr
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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),