M 4.5 in India on 12 Feb 2017 04:05 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 1105359
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 33.19 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.5397 , 91.0857
Event Date: 12 Feb 2017 04:05 UTC
12 Feb 2017 09:35 Local
Exposed Population:
10570000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Feb 2017 04:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.4 (Bangladesh)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Bangladesh= 5.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008j9t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),