M 4.6 in China on 22 Apr 2024 13:08 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 1425312
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.9867 , 82.6898
Event Date: 22 Apr 2024 13:08 UTC
22 Apr 2024 21:08 Local
Exposed Population:
100 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2024 14:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mdun 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

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),