M 4.5 in China on 21 Jan 2021 19:34 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 1252622
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 38.97 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.1256 , 105.008
Event Date: 21 Jan 2021 19:34 UTC
22 Jan 2021 03:34 Local
Exposed Population:
10110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2021 20:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d26x Scaled population (vector) 6.93  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),