M 4.8 in Myanmar on 12 Jan 2018 15:23 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 1130808
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 18.3661 , 96.2332
Event Date: 12 Jan 2018 15:23 UTC
12 Jan 2018 21:53 Local
Exposed Population:
3690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2018 15:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.4 (Myanmar)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000ciw6 Scaled population (vector) 6.36  
  C1 earthquake 0.89  
  C2 earthquake -0.28  
  Country Vulnerability -0.47  
  INFORM_normalised 1.15  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 550 | About casualties: 40 | Last hour: 0

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زلزال بقوة 7.3 درجات يضرب بيروSun, 14 Jan 2018 13:50:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),