M 5.1 in China on 20 May 2024 05:10 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 1429509
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 28 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1777 , 76.9563
Event Date: 20 May 2024 05:10 UTC
20 May 2024 13:10 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 20 May 2024 15:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mzrr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),