M 5.7 in China on 08 Jan 2025 07:44 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 1461263
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 34.7767 , 97.4386
Event Date: 08 Jan 2025 07:44 UTC
08 Jan 2025 15:44 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 08 Jan 2025 08:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pijd Scaled population (raster) 0.3  
  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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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),