M 5.5 in China on 05 Jun 2013 00:43 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 1000085
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 32.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.5113 , 95.7942
Event Date: 05 Jun 2013 00:43 UTC
05 Jun 2013 08:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 69447 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jun 2013 02:59 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),