M 4.6 in China on 17 Sep 2022 18:03 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 1338134
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 16.574 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0743 , 121.3368
Event Date: 17 Sep 2022 18:03 UTC
18 Sep 2022 02:03 Local
Exposed Population:
80 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2022 18:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i8w3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),