M 5.3 in China on 21 May 2021 13:21 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 1269677
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 14.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.7065 , 100.0821
Event Date: 21 May 2021 13:21 UTC
21 May 2021 21:21 Local
Exposed Population:
3790000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2021 13:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.8 0.8
us7000e524 Scaled population (vector) 6.89  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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),