M 4.5 in China on 28 Apr 2024 03:43 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 1426292
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.1751 , 122.9491
Event Date: 28 Apr 2024 03:43 UTC
28 Apr 2024 11:43 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 28 Apr 2024 04:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000muj5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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: 45 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Gadgets made in China are a concern2024-05-01T18:49+0200.

A series of strong earthquakes in Hualien County not only caused severe damage in Taiwan, but also revealed that China’s power has permeated everywhere. A Taiwanese woman posted on the Internet that she found clips of the earthquake — which
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World News | Earthquake of Magnitude 4.0 Strikes Myanmar2024-05-01T18:09+0200.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. "Earthquake of Magnitude:4.0, Occurred on 01-05-2024, 20:51:43 IST, Lat: 26.34 & Long: 95.85, Depth: 10 Km ,Location: Myanmar," said National Center for Seismology in a post on X. Naypy
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Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - 19 km north of Yining, Xinjiang, China, ... 2024-05-01T10:03+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Yining , a city with more than 520,000 inhabitants in China , in 18.7 km (12 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Se
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Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - 55 km southwest of Bole, Xinjiang, Chin ... 2024-05-01T09:28+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Yining , a city with more than 520,000 inhabitants in China , in 63 km (39 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Seve
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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),