M 4.5 in China on 25 Mar 2025 17:21 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 1474060
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.8742 , 116.8165
Event Date: 25 Mar 2025 17:21 UTC
26 Mar 2025 01:21 Local
Exposed Population:
140 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 25 Mar 2025 17:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pmjv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Air traffic control tower toppled during Myanmar earthquake 3/29/2025 5:17:00 PM.

Satellite photos from Planet Labs PBC show the earthquake toppled the air traffic control tower at Myanmar’s Naypyitaw International Airport. The photos taken on Saturday show the tower toppled over as if sheered from its base. Debris lay
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Shortage of medical supplies hampers Myanmar quake response: UN 3/29/2025 5:12:00 PM.

GENEVA: A severe lack of medical supplies is hampering efforts to respond to the deadly earthquake in Myanmar, the United Nations said Saturday, adding that those affected needed urgent humanitarian aid. The UN said it was mobilising emerge
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China Focus: China provides disaster relief assistance for earthquake-.. 3/29/2025 5:12:00 PM.

KUNMING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A medical team from southwest China''s Yunnan Province arrived at the Yangon International Airport in Myanmar on Saturday morning, marking the arrival of the first foreign rescue team in Myanmar since a massive
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China Focus: China provides disaster relief assistance for earthquake-.. 3/29/2025 5:07:00 PM.

KUNMING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A medical team from southwest China''s Yunnan Province arrived at the Yangon International Airport in Myanmar on Saturday morning, marking the arrival of the first foreign rescue team in Myanmar since a massive
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Exposed population

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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),