M 5.3 in India on 05 Apr 2017 16:44 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 1109486
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 33.64 Km
Lat/Lon: 14.4749 , 93.056
Event Date: 05 Apr 2017 16:44 UTC
05 Apr 2017 22:44 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2017 17:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (India)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008ep4 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

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),