M 4.6 in China on 12 Apr 2024 04:03 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 1423786
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.6593 , 81.9167
Event Date: 12 Apr 2024 04:03 UTC
12 Apr 2024 12:03 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2024 04:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mbkx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),