Overall Green Earthquake in China on 10 Jun 2021 11:46 UTC

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M 5.1 in China on 10 Jun 2021 11:46 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 1272509
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	24.5526 , 102.0142
Event Date:	10 Jun 2021 11:46 UTC 10 Jun 2021 19:46 Local
Exposed Population:	7820000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	10 Jun 2021 12:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.5		0.5
us7000ebq9	Scaled population (vector)	6.55
	C1 earthquake	1.39
	C2 earthquake	-0.24
	Country Vulnerability	0.26
	INFORM_normalised	0.82

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China - Earthquake (ECHO 14 Jun 2021)Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:44

An earthquake of 5.1 M at a depth of 10 km occurred in Shuangbai County (Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, southern China) on 10 June at 11.46 UTC (19.46 local time). The epicentre was located approximately 55 km northwest of Yuxi City.
According to media reports, at least two people have been injured and 2,669 houses damaged.
National authorities mobilised 3,420 people in the emergency operations and provided help - tents, quilts, beds and food - for those most affected.

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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),

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