M 4.7 in China on 24 Oct 2020 18:04 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 1240793
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 40.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.8024 , 104.2935
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 18:04 UTC
25 Oct 2020 02:04 Local
Exposed Population:
7660000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 20:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccpl Scaled population (vector) 6.76  
  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

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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),