M 4.6 in China on 03 Jan 2018 21:35 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 1130115
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9114 , 99.2484
Event Date: 03 Jan 2018 21:35 UTC
04 Jan 2018 05:35 Local
Exposed Population:
3100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jan 2018 22:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000bzhg Scaled population (vector) 6.55  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),