M 4.7 in China on 08 May 2022 11:59 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 1321750
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.8637 , 104.5131
Event Date: 08 May 2022 11:59 UTC
08 May 2022 19:59 Local
Exposed Population:
6.6 million in 100km
Inserted at: 08 May 2022 12:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us7000h7x4 Scaled population (vector) 6.79  
  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: 722 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Iran, China sign MoU on earthquake forecast2022-05-12T11:06+0200.

Tsunami and Earthquake Research Center of University of Hormozgan in southern Iran signed an MoU with the Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, affiliated to China’s Earthquake Administration on Thursday to cooperation on earthquake forecast
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Elusive gravity signals can mean faster seismic alerts2022-05-12T10:53+0200.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),