M 4.6 in China on 20 Sep 2020 23:54 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 1236153
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.9442 , 121.6264
Event Date: 20 Sep 2020 23:54 UTC
21 Sep 2020 07:54 Local
Exposed Population:
340000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2020 00:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bqlw Scaled population (vector) 5.43  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 47 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Humour mills go on overdrive after late night boom in SrinagarWed, 23 Sep 2020 21:00:00 +0200.

It’s a sonic boom! It's a pressure cooker bursting! It's a quake! And yes, the late night boom that reverberated across the city and several parts of south Kashmir on Tuesday was indeed a quake, seismologists later confirmed. But before tha
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Today in historyMon, 21 Sep 2020 08:05:00 +0200.

21 September 2020 (MIA) – International Day of Peace. 1170 – Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall ma
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),