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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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),