M 4.6 in Republic of Korea on 14 Dec 2021 08:19 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 1301509
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.0795 , 125.9824
Event Date: 14 Dec 2021 08:19 UTC
14 Dec 2021 16:19 Local
Exposed Population:
600 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2021 15:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (South Korea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gc4p Scaled population (vector) 5.64  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.62  
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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),