M 5.1 in China on 03 May 2020 03:24 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 1216458
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 40.98 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.2278 , 121.5752
Event Date: 03 May 2020 03:24 UTC
03 May 2020 11:24 Local
Exposed Population:
640000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2020 03:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000995h Scaled population (vector) 5.67  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),