M 5.1 in Myanmar on 13 Mar 2017 14:19 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 1107682
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 17.375 , 95.9845
Event Date: 13 Mar 2017 14:19 UTC
13 Mar 2017 20:49 Local
Exposed Population:
11150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Mar 2017 14:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.9 0.9
us100088mq 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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),