M 7 in China on 07 Jan 2025 01:05 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a high humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1461014
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Glide number: EQ-2025-000004-CHN
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.58 , 87.3948
Event Date: 07 Jan 2025 01:05 UTC
07 Jan 2025 09:05 Local
Exposed Population: 7 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2025 01:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
GDACS score
NEIC 1.5 1.5
us6000pi9w Scaled population (vector) 2.96  
  C1 rapid impact -0.37  
  C2 rapid impact 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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200 km
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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"ECHO Daily Map of 08 January 2025"

Latest media headlines

Residents in quake-hit Xizang getting relocated at mobile houses 1/11/2025 12:56:00 AM.

Residents make bed inside a mobile house at a temporary resettlement site in Gurum Village in Chamco Township of Dingri County in Xigaze, southwest China''s Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025. The first batch of 20 households, a total
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400 mobile houses start to be built in quake affected Lnaza County of .. 1/10/2025 11:48:00 PM.

Workers build mobile houses in Quxar Township of Lnaze County in Xigaze, southwest China''s Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025. A total of 400 mobile houses started to be built here on Friday in quake affected Lnaza County as part of t
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400 mobile houses start to be built in quake affected Lnaza County of .. 1/10/2025 11:46:00 PM.

Workers build mobile houses in Quxar Township of Lnaze County in Xigaze, southwest China''s Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 10, 2025. A total of 400 mobile houses started to be built here on Friday in quake affected Lnaza County as part of t
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Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - 145 km southwest of Shache, Xinjiang, C.. 1/10/2025 11:40:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Yak''airike , a town with 10,000 inhabitants in China , in 113 km (70 mi) distance east of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. The f
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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 (47), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),