M 4.6 in China on 28 Jul 2013 15:26 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 1000729
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 15 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.5456 , 104.246
Event Date: 28 Jul 2013 15:26 UTC
28 Jul 2013 23:26 Local
Exposed Population:
5076384 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2013 16:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),