M 4.7 in Laos on 31 Dec 2021 14:53 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 1304154
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.2358 , 101.7114
Event Date: 31 Dec 2021 14:53 UTC
31 Dec 2021 21:53 Local
Exposed Population:
1.2 million in 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jan 2022 05:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; Laos= 6.2; Vietnam= 4.2; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000g86b Scaled population (vector) 5.83  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),