M 5.5 in China on 18 Dec 2021 23:54 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 1302374
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.9261 , 92.6149
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 23:54 UTC
19 Dec 2021 07:54 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI V
4 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2021 00:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdhy Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),