M 5 in China on 27 Jan 2024 09:03 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 1412302
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 11.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.2906 , 78.6327
Event Date: 27 Jan 2024 09:03 UTC
27 Jan 2024 17:03 Local
Exposed Population:
100 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2024 09:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.5 (Kyrgyzstan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lubs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),