M 6.3 in China on 16 Jun 2026 09:06 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1546719
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.8888 , 95.4028
Event Date: 16 Jun 2026 09:06 UTC
16 Jun 2026 17:06 Local
Exposed Population: 9 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 16 Jun 2026 09:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.9 1.9
us7000stbz Scaled population (raster) 3.65  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),