Overall Green Earthquake alert in China on 24 Jul 2022 00:32 UTC

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M 4.9 in China on 24 Jul 2022 00:32 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 1331797
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	29.49 Km
Lat/Lon:	23.2442 , 121.4126
Event Date:	24 Jul 2022 00:32 UTC 24 Jul 2022 08:32 Local
Exposed Population:	270 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at:	24 Jul 2022 00:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000ht1r	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	-0.59
	C2 rapid impact	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.82

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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),

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