M 5.7 in China on 29 Jan 2023 23:49 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 1356512
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 27.527 Km
Lat/Lon: 39.9998 , 82.3599
Event Date: 29 Jan 2023 23:49 UTC
30 Jan 2023 07:49 Local
Exposed Population: 110 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2023 03:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000jk82 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 163 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Micronesia says it is less afraid of release of Japanese nuclear plant ... 2023-02-02T23:17+0100.

The Pacific island state of Micronesia, one of the fiercest critics of a Japanese decision to release water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, said on Thursday it was no longer as worried about the plan as it had been.
...(more)
Micronesia says less afraid of release of Japanese nuclear plant water2023-02-02T15:11+0100.

By Sakura Murakami. (Reuters) - The Pacific island state of Micronesia, one of the fiercest critics of a Japanese decision to release water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, said on Thursday it was no longer as worrie
...(more)
Micronesia says less afraid of release of Japanese nuclear plant water2023-02-02T15:06+0100.

The Pacific island state of Micronesia, one of the fiercest critics of a Japanese decision to release water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea , said on Thursday (Feb 02) it was no longer as worried about the plan as it
...(more)
Micronesia says less afraid of release of Japanese nuclear plant water ... 2023-02-02T14:48+0100.

By Sakura Murakami. (Reuters) - The Pacific island state of Micronesia, one of the fiercest critics of a Japanese decision to release water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, said on Thursday it was no longer as worrie
...(more)

View more news

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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),