M 4.9 in China on 16 Jun 2026 13:27 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 1546785
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Glide number: EQ-2026-000088-CHN
Depth: 12.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.9084 , 95.2912
Event Date: 16 Jun 2026 13:27 UTC
16 Jun 2026 21:27 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in MMI>=V
Inserted at: 16 Jun 2026 14:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ste2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),