M 4.6 in China on 21 Oct 2021 00:12 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 1291280
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 43.8065 , 84.2733
Event Date: 21 Oct 2021 00:12 UTC
21 Oct 2021 08:12 Local
Exposed Population:
690 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2021 00:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000fwas Scaled population (vector) 5.21  
  C1 earthquake 1.39  
  C2 earthquake -0.24  
  Country Vulnerability 0.26  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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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),