M 5.3 in China on 30 Jun 2026 23:44 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 1549470
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7814 , 95.3412
Event Date: 30 Jun 2026 23:44 UTC
01 Jul 2026 07:44 Local
Exposed Population: 8 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 01 Jul 2026 02:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000t9bg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),