M 5 in China on 29 Dec 2021 21:30 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 1303945
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.0116 , 94.6658
Event Date: 29 Dec 2021 21:30 UTC
30 Dec 2021 05:30 Local
Exposed Population:
210 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2021 21:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000g7t4 Scaled population (vector) 5  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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),