M 5.6 in China on 01 Jun 2024 00:46 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 1431171
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 12.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.1604 , 86.3895
Event Date: 01 Jun 2024 00:46 UTC
01 Jun 2024 08:46 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 01 Jun 2024 01:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mpe2 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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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),