M 5 in China on 10 Apr 2024 10:57 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 1423516
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 41.9164 , 82.4446
Event Date: 10 Apr 2024 10:57 UTC
10 Apr 2024 18:57 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2024 11:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mb69 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),