M 4.9 in India on 17 Mar 2017 14:01 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 1108060
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 49.65 Km
Lat/Lon: 11.1633 , 92.8458
Event Date: 17 Mar 2017 14:01 UTC
17 Mar 2017 19:31 Local
Exposed Population:
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Mar 2017 15:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us20008spa Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),