M 5.5 in China on 18 Sep 2022 09:39 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 1338252
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.1987 , 121.2979
Event Date: 18 Sep 2022 09:39 UTC
18 Sep 2022 17:39 Local
Exposed Population: About 1000 people in MMI
2 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2022 09:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i928 Scaled population (raster) 2.19  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),