M 5.2 in China on 19 Oct 2022 04:35 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 1342643
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 27.159 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.7386 , 92.2222
Event Date: 19 Oct 2022 04:35 UTC
19 Oct 2022 12:35 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI V
8 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2022 00:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000iurr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

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Ammon News - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 occurred in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Saturday, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said. The quake was recorded at 13:17 p.m. local time (05.17 GMT) in the Lu
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11:17 China hit by 5.5 magnitude earthquake 10/22/2022 10:22:00 AM.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 occurred Saturday in the west of China's Sichuan Province, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported. According to this information the epicenter of this earthquake was located 48 km to the South-Ea
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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),