M 4.9 in China on 16 Oct 2022 15:02 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 1342291
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10.701 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1753 , 83.1898
Event Date: 16 Oct 2022 15:02 UTC
16 Oct 2022 23:02 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2022 15:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000iu4w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),