M 4.7 in China on 17 Dec 2021 06:54 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 1302106
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 29.59 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.4518 , 88.7696
Event Date: 17 Dec 2021 06:54 UTC
17 Dec 2021 14:54 Local
Exposed Population:
1.2 million in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2021 07:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gd1d Scaled population (vector) 5.66  
  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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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),