M 5.7 in Laos on 24 Dec 2021 13:43 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 1303214
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.3643 , 101.688
Event Date: 24 Dec 2021 13:43 UTC
24 Dec 2021 21:43 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
1 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 24 Dec 2021 14:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Laos)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; Laos= 6.2; Vietnam= 4.2; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us6000gf1y Scaled population (raster) 2.06  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.13  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),