M 5.9 in China on 09 Jun 2022 17:28 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 1325958
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 14.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 32.4126 , 101.8379
Event Date: 09 Jun 2022 17:28 UTC
10 Jun 2022 01:28 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 09 Jun 2022 17:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us7000hg9p Scaled population (raster) 1.08  
  C1 shakemap -0.37  
  C2 shakemap 0.76  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 187 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

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2022-06-13T11:28:32.711Z. China News Service, June 13. China Earthquake Networks officially determined that an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 occurred in Gaize County (34.26 degrees north latitude, 85.37 degrees east longitude) at 14:19 on Ju
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Better Land-Use and Insurance to Mitigate Natural Disasters2022-06-13T09:22+0200.

By Céline Grislain-Letrémy and Bertrand Villeneuve (Université Paris-Dauphine) The rising costs of natural disasters over the last decades are largely explained by urbanisation in exposed areas. Land-use and insurance policies can limit thi
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A 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit Minfeng County, Hotan, Xinjiang, no rep ... 2022-06-13T04:52+0200.

According to the official determination of the China Earthquake Networks, at 6:31 on June 13, an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 occurred in Minfeng County (35.59 degrees north latitude, 84.09 degrees east longitude) in Hotan, Xinjiang, with a
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A magnitude 3.3 earthquake occurred in Malkang City, Aba Prefecture, S ... 2022-06-13T03:58+0200.

2022-06-13T01:55:46.692Z. China News Service, June 13. China Earthquake Networks officially determined that an earthquake of magnitude 3.3 occurred in Malkang City, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan (32.20 degrees north latitude, 101.83 degrees east
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),