M 4.9 in China on 27 Jul 2020 05:50 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 1227793
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 34.66 Km
Lat/Lon: 30.3976 , 94.7881
Event Date: 27 Jul 2020 05:50 UTC
27 Jul 2020 13:50 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2020 06:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b4l6 Scaled population (vector) 4.77  
  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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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),