M 4.6 in China on 01 Aug 2020 23:47 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 1228512
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.7913 , 77.2859
Event Date: 01 Aug 2020 23:47 UTC
02 Aug 2020 07:47 Local
Exposed Population:
1250000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2020 00:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.5 (Kyrgyzstan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Kyrgyzstan= 4.5; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b883 Scaled population (vector) 5.97  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability -0.25  
  INFORM_normalised 0.93  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Today in historySun, 02 Aug 2020 09:53:00 +0200.

2 August 2020 (MIA) 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae
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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),