M 4.7 in China on 21 May 2023 19:56 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 1375057
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.4543 , 104.8517
Event Date: 21 May 2023 19:56 UTC
22 May 2023 03:56 Local
Exposed Population:
90 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 21 May 2023 21:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kdqt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),