M 5.5 in China on 17 Sep 2022 14:45 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 1338105
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.9716 , 121.2155
Event Date: 17 Sep 2022 14:45 UTC
17 Sep 2022 22:45 Local
Exposed Population: About 3000 people in MMI
3 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2022 15:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i8v9 Scaled population (raster) 2.29  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),