M 5.2 in China on 30 Dec 2021 06:47 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 1303993
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 15.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9482 , 122.4613
Event Date: 30 Dec 2021 06:47 UTC
30 Dec 2021 14:47 Local
Exposed Population:
280 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2021 07:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000g7wt Scaled population (vector) 4.45  
  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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),