M 4.5 in China on 24 Jul 2020 03:39 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 1227440
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.2384 , 86.7897
Event Date: 24 Jul 2020 03:39 UTC
24 Jul 2020 11:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2020 15:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b35t Scaled population (vector) 3.61  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),