M 5 in China on 08 Jul 2026 23:44 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 1550868
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.4707 , 104.7074
Event Date: 08 Jul 2026 23:44 UTC
09 Jul 2026 07:44 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 09 Jul 2026 00:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000sz3z Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),