M 4.8 in Viet Nam on 27 Jul 2020 05:14 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 1227790
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 20.8717 , 104.5406
Event Date: 27 Jul 2020 05:14 UTC
27 Jul 2020 12:14 Local
Exposed Population:
3550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2020 05:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.2 (Laos)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Laos= 6.2; Vietnam= 4.2

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us6000b4kv Scaled population (vector) 6.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.13  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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VN offers US$100,000 in aid to help China overcome consequences of nat ... Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:29:00 +0200.

VGP – The Government and people of Viet Nam have pledged to provide US$100,000 in aid to help China overcome the consequences of the recent floods and earthquake. The aid is a solidarity move originating from the two countries’ tradition of
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),