M 5.5 in China on 14 Aug 2022 08:20 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 1333573
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 33.1554 , 92.8196
Event Date: 14 Aug 2022 08:20 UTC
14 Aug 2022 16:20 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VII
Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2022 06:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000iaqi Scaled population (vector) 0.6  
  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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),