M 6.6 in China on 05 Sep 2022 04:52 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 1336287
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Glide number: EQ-2022-000303-CHN
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.7263 , 102.279
Event Date: 05 Sep 2022 04:52 UTC
05 Sep 2022 12:52 Local
Exposed Population: Less than 100 people in MMI VIII
20 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2022 05:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.6 1.6
us7000i59t Scaled population (raster) 3.09  
  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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M6.6 in China - EC/ECHO daily mapTue, 06 Sep 2022 16:23

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Death toll of 6.8-magnitude quake in China rises to 86 9/9/2022 4:56:00 AM.

A total of 86 people have been killed, and 35 remain missing after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Luding County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on September 5, local authorities said on September 8 The rescue headquarters said that
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Rescue underway in quake-hit Sichuan 9/9/2022 4:35:00 AM.

Cellphone photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows rescuers sending earthquake relief supplies to Moxi Town of Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Hong Fule/Xinhua) Cellphone photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows rescuers ma
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Death toll in China's Sichuan earthquake rises to 86 9/9/2022 4:04:00 AM.

The death toll from a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has risen to 86, state media reported on Thursday. Monday's quake, the strongest to hit the province since 2017, has injured more than 2
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Rescue underway in quake-hit Sichuan 9/9/2022 3:23:00 AM.

Cellphone photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows rescuers sending earthquake relief supplies to Moxi Town of Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Hong Fule/Xinhua) Cellphone photo taken on Sept. 7, 2022 shows rescuers ma
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),