M 5.6 in China on 21 May 2014 00:21 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 1032041
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 11.69 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.7323 , 121.471
Event Date: 21 May 2014 00:21 UTC
21 May 2014 08:21 Local
Exposed Population: 4020000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2014 00:41 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),