M 4.7 in Northern Xinjiang, China on 03 Aug 2020 22:30 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 1228759
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 44.0528 , 84.5674
Event Date: 03 Aug 2020 22:30 UTC
04 Aug 2020 06:30 Local
Exposed Population:
840000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Aug 2020 22:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b8wj Scaled population (vector) 5.86  
  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),