M 5.1 in China on 24 Jul 2013 15:32 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 1000630
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 2.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8541 , 121.6274
Event Date: 24 Jul 2013 15:32 UTC
24 Jul 2013 23:32 Local
Exposed Population:
1885371 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2013 16:20 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),