M 5.5 in Myanmar on 07 Jan 2018 06:47 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 1130362
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 22.77 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.7561 , 94.9132
Event Date: 07 Jan 2018 06:47 UTC
07 Jan 2018 13:17 Local
Exposed Population: About 6000 people in MMI
1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2018 07:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Myanmar= 6.4; India= 4.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000c1my Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),