M 6.6 in China on 07 Jan 2022 17:45 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1304967
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Glide number: EQ-2022-000001-CHN
Depth: 13 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8152 , 101.2775
Event Date: 07 Jan 2022 17:45 UTC
08 Jan 2022 01:45 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people in MMI
10 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2022 08:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.8 1.8
us7000g9zq Scaled population (raster) 3.41  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 275 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

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Natural disasters cost Asia-Pacific US$ 50 billion2022-01-11T15:11+0100.

Milan (AsiaNews/Agencies) Worldwide natural disasters caused an estimated US$ 280 billion in economic losses in 2021, the second most expensive year after 2017, this according to Germany-based Munich Re, one of the largest insurance compani
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),