M 4.8 in Myanmar on 12 May 2016 07:54 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 1086166
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 72 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.3106 , 94.3988
Event Date: 12 May 2016 07:54 UTC
12 May 2016 14:24 Local
Exposed Population:
2672990 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2016 08:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.6 -0.6
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),