M 5 in China on 24 Jul 2013 14:47 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 1000629
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 12.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8514 , 121.5636
Event Date: 24 Jul 2013 14:47 UTC
24 Jul 2013 22:47 Local
Exposed Population:
3295779 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2013 19:44 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),