M 4.5 in China on 28 Jan 2014 12:02 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 1024959
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 9.82 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.7011 , 101.3603
Event Date: 28 Jan 2014 12:02 UTC
28 Jan 2014 20:02 Local
Exposed Population:
1851300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2014 12:22 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),