M 4.5 in China on 18 Sep 2022 01:51 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 1338189
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.0917 , 121.4823
Event Date: 18 Sep 2022 01:51 UTC
18 Sep 2022 09:51 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 24 Sep 2022 00:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i8yl Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),