M 5.6 in China on 04 Jun 2019 09:46 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 1181571
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.8813 , 121.6704
Event Date: 04 Jun 2019 09:46 UTC
04 Jun 2019 17:46 Local
Exposed Population: About 13000 people in MMI
320000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jun 2019 12:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003v7s Scaled population (raster) 0  
  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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Latest media headlines

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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),